Doigt

Doigt was a measure of length in the French-East Indian Pondichery . It did not correspond to the inch , as is often mentioned in the literature , but was the width of a thumb.

• 1 doits = 2.166 centimeters
• 1 doigt = 1/12 pied

literature

• Richard Klimpert: Lexicon of coins, measures, weights, counting methods and time values ​​of all countries in the world. Verlag C. Regenhardt, Berlin 1896, p. 77. (Reprint Verlag Рипол Классик ISBN 978-1-14697-121-8 )