Niou (unit)
Niou , also Niuh , was a measure of length in the Kingdom of Siam . The measure corresponded to 8 densely packed rice grains .
- 1 Niou = 12 Keub / Kaub / Cobido = 16.9 Parisian lines = 0.038 meters
The dimensional chain for the small measure was
- 1 Sen / Ser = 20 Roua = 40 Ken = 80 Sock = 160 Keub / Kaub / Cobido = 1920 Niou = (106 2/3 Parisian feet = 34 13/20 meters = 34.65 meters; example, dimensions fluctuated in the regions )
literature
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, pp. 208, 280.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 231, J. Paulische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1855, p. 505.