[Greenbuilding] human scale

Chris Green pojeros at telus.net
Wed Sep 26 23:04:44 EDT 2007


YankeePerm at aol.com wrote:
> Is a tenth of a foot called a toe?
>   
No. A half-toe.  Five toes to the foot.

In the old Japanese units of measurement, the shaku, or Japanese foot 
(11.93") was divided into ten 'sun'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement

So maybe that should be two suns in one toe.

Cheers,

Chris Green.



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