Sorry if it’s been discussed before, and I did try to search first. What’s a “ping” in square feet?
1500 square feet would be how many pings?
1 ping = 35.574 723 927 square foot or approx 1 double bed
Courtesy of Google and onlineconversion.com/area.htm
Remember that in older apartments, the stated ping is the space inside the apartment, whereas in newer places, the figure often includes a share of public spaces. A 15 ping old apartment is likely to be bigger than a 15 ping new one.
One ping also equals 3.305 square meters (a square 1.82 x 1.82 meters)
I actually looked this up on some government measurements web site once (don’t remember the url offhand though) and wrote up a set of conversions for the unix ‘units’ program.
Here’s the way it measures out officially:
1 Taiwan inch is 3.0303 centimeters
1 Taiwan foot is 10 Taiwan inches
1 ping is 36 square Taiwan feet
Which gives you:
1 ping = 35.583104 square feet = 3.3057785 square meters
If you want to do conversions on your unix box, use this units.tab addition:
taiwaninch 3.0303 cm
twinch taiwaninch
twin taiwaninch
taiwanfoot 10 taiwaninch
twfoot taiwanfoot
twft taiwanfoot
ping 36 taiwanfoot2
taiwanping ping
twping ping
Those feckin Taiwanese “inches” have caught me out a few times. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to decimalise feet?
I measure everything in cm now (except my willy of course, which I have to measure in feet).
I still remember the day we measured the bed to figure out what size sheets I should bring back from the U.S. and cursing whatever rat bastard it was who decided to make beds here in stupid non-standard sizes… until I finally figured out that it was the measuring tape that was different, not the bed.
Why would someone named ‘Iris’ have a willy?
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1 Taiwan inch is 3.0303 centimeters
1 Taiwan foot is 10 Taiwan inches
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Those feckin Taiwanese “inches” have caught me out a few times. Who the hell thought it was a good idea to decimalise feet?
I measure everything in cm now (except my willy of course, which I have to measure in feet).[/quote]
Are you tellin us that you hav a foot for a willy? Not sure if that would be a good thing or a bad thing. Sure, it must hurt when Sandman and you erm, …love each other…but just think of the added pleasure of being able to wiggle your toes. Can your willy wiggle it’s toes?
Curious Toes need to knows.
I asked some guys to cut a board and I made the width in Taiwan inch instead of US inch and got a board that’s too wide. I should have used a converter instead of the ruler.
I always thought Taiwan inch and US inch is the same.
is the Taiwan inch not the old cun (tsun) measure of about a thumbknuckle from chinaa?
this is used in acupuncture a lot (obviously), whc is here i know it from.
as far as them making ten inches to the foot, it makes more sense than twelve, as the Chinese invented the decimal system a long long time ago.
twelve inches in an Imperial foot is about the same distance as ten cun in a Chinese foot, as both of which are, funnily enough, based on the body part. the English (Imperial) inch is apocryphally based on the width of Henry VIIIth’s thumb print, when he signed a law that is widely claimed to have been the first women’s rights law anywhere, to whit: “Thou shalt not beat thine wyve with a rod broader than the King’s thumb”.
I couldn’t help noticing that.
By the way, FYI, a Taiwan Ping is equal to a Japanese Tsubo and a Korean pyeong. This measurement is purely a Japanese form of measurement that was NOT derived by ancient Chinese Imperial measurements. It was introduced to Taiwan when Taiwan was part of Japan.
Correct about the Japanese origin of the local measures.
The Chinese inch and foot are bigger than the Japanese/Taiwanese ones.
There are 3 Chinese feet in a meter.
There are 10 Chinese inches in a Chinese foot.
There are 33 Taiwanese inches in a meter.
There are 10 Taiwanese inches in a Taiwanese foot.
That that makes 11 Taiwanese inches in a Chinese foot.
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So buy a new tape measure wherever you go. I’ve had plenty of friendly arguments when I’ve told people I’m 69" tall (US). Maybe start writining it like with money: T69" or US69" 
Use a piece of bamboo to measure things.
The Taiwan/Japanese foot is the distance between segments.
Otherwise, a metric tape measure works well anywhere.
No need to buy a new one wherever you go 