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Its standardized value is 20.873 cm (8.2177 in) (9 pulgadas). Half of a palmo in Castile was called the coto, described as six fingers and defined as 10.4365 cm (4.10886 in). The ancient Romans had a similar, smaller unit called the palmus, which was 7.3925 cm (2.91043 in).
A number of units were used. One vara (lit. "pole", "yard") was equal to 0.838 m (32.99 inches) as it was legally defined also use inches and feet. [1] Some other units and legal equivalents are given below:
Lists of conversion factors between the various units of measure were given in many European reference works including: Traité, Paris – 1769 [40] Palaiseau – Bordeaux: 1816 [41] de Gelder, Amsterdam and The Hague – 1824 [42] Horace, Brussels – 1840 [43] Noback & Noback (2 volumes), Leipzig – 1851 [44] [45] Bruhns, Leipzig – 1881 [46]
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The United States adopted the conversion factor 1 metre = 39.37 inches by an act in 1866. [30] In 1893, Mendenhall ordered the physical realization of the inch to be based on the international prototype metres numbers 21 and 27, which had been received from the CGPM, together with the previously adopted conversion factor. [31]
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