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  2. Tatami - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, the size of a room is often measured by the number of tatami mats (-畳, -jō), about 1.653 m 2 (17.79 sq ft) for a standard Nagoya-size tatami. Alternatively, in terms of traditional Japanese area units , room area (and especially house floor area) is measured in terms of tsubo , where one tsubo is the area of two tatami mats (a ...

  3. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The French square foot: toise carrée: 36 ~3.799 m 2 ~40.889 sq ft, or ~4.543 sq yd The French square fathom Paris: perche d'arpent carrée: 484 ~51.07 m 2 ~61.08 sq yd This was the main square perch in old French surveying. It is a square 22 pieds du roi on each side. vergée: 12 100 ~1277 m 2 ~1527 sq yd A square 5 perches on each side, or ...

  4. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    47.1 sq ft scrupulum 100 1 ⁄ 288: 8.76 m 2 94.3 sq ft duo scrupula 200 1 ⁄ 144: 17.5 m 2 188 sq ft sextula 400 1 ⁄ 72: 35.0 m 2 377 sq ft sicilicus 600 1 ⁄ 48: 52.6 m 2 566 sq ft semiuncia 1,200 1 ⁄ 24: 105 m 2 1,130 sq ft uncia 2,400 1 ⁄ 12: 210 m 2 2,260 sq ft sextans 4,800 1 ⁄ 6: 421 m 2 4,530 sq ft quadrans

  5. Korean units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Korean units of measurement, called cheokgwan-beop (Korean: 척관법; Hanja: 尺貫法) or cheokgeun-beop (척근법; 尺斤法) in Korean, is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Korean peninsula. It is largely based on the Chinese system, with influence from Japanese standards imposed following its annexation of ...

  6. Square foot - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of 1 square foot with some Imperial and metric units of area. The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft 2; also denoted by ' 2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar ...

  7. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A board foot is a United States and Canadian unit of approximate volume, used for lumber. It is equivalent to 1 inch × 1 foot × 1 foot (144 cu in or 2,360 cm 3). It is also found in the unit of density pounds per board foot. In Australia and New Zealand the terms super foot or superficial foot were formerly used for this unit. The exact ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The centimetre (SI symbol: cm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10−2 metres (⁠ 1 100 ⁠ m = 0.01 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −2 m and 10 −1 m (1 cm and 1 dm). 1 cm – 10 millimetres. 1 cm – 0.39 inches. 1 cm – edge of a square of area 1 cm 2.

  9. Microapartment - Wikipedia

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    The average size of an New York City tenement unit back then was around 284 square feet, and four or more people would cram into that tiny space. [18] In June 2016, [19] New York City got its first microapartment [20] building, Carmel Place, with 55 units that are as small as 250 square feet (23 m 2) [21] and ceilings from nine to ten feet (2.7 ...