1 Taiwan Inch (å°å¯¸) equals 3.0303 centimeters
1 Taiwan Foot (å°å°º) equals 10 Taiwan Inches
1 Ping (åª) equals 36 square Taiwan Feet
blathering from some guy in taiwan
1 Taiwan Inch (å°å¯¸) equals 3.0303 centimeters
1 Taiwan Foot (å°å°º) equals 10 Taiwan Inches
1 Ping (åª) equals 36 square Taiwan Feet
Hmm. Those sound just like the Japanese 寸（ã™ã‚“）and 尺（ã—ゃã）and åªï¼ˆã¤ã¼ï¼‰ too. I’ll bet it’s the same Chinese measurements, Japan uses.
In Japan land is still talked about in åª but other than that mostly everything remotely modern is metric. I guess Taiwan is similar?
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Taiwan being a Japanese colony for 50 years might have something to do with it too. Is there an official conversion rate for the Japanese units into metric? I had a kinda hard time finding the Taiwan conversions, but eventually found several .gov.tw sites using the 3.0303 figure. Other sites claimed everything from 3.0 to 3.3 cm to the Taiwan Inch. I had approximated at 3.03 already by checking that two measuring tapes read about 303 cm to 100 taiwan inches, so I’m pretty sure 3.0303 is correct. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the Japanese measurements might be slightly different.
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