Tapak tangan (ukuran): Perbedaan antara revisi

Pada masa Yunani Kuno "tapak tangan" ({{Lang-grc-gre|παλαιστή}}, ''palaistḗ'', {{Lang|grc|δῶρον}}, ''dōron'', atau {{Lang|grc|δακτυλοδόχμη}}, ''daktylodókhmē'') adalah ¼ "kaki" Yunani (''poûs''), yang bervariasi menurut wilayah antara {{Convert|27|-|35|cm|abbr=on|sp=us}}.<ref name="oawd">{{Citation|last=Dilke|first=Oswald Ashton Wentworth|title=Mathematics and Measurement|date=1987|url=https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AKJZvXOS7n4C&printsec=frontcover|series=''Reading the Past'', No. 2|location=Berkeley|publisher=University of California Press}}.</ref> Ini memberikan nilai-nilai untuk "tapak tangan" antara {{Convert|6.,7|-|8.,8|cm|abbr=on|sp=us}}, dengan "tapak tangan" [[Attika]] sekitar {{Convert|7.,4|cm|in|abbr=on|sp=us}}.<ref name="aei">{{Citation|last=Rossi|first=Cesare|title=Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present|date=2009|url=https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3CbqDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover|ref={{harvid|Rossi & al.|2009}}|author2=Flavio Russo|series=''History of Mechanism and Machine Science'', No. 33|location=Cham|publisher=Springer}}.</ref>

Berbagai ukuran "tapak tangan" ini umumnya dibagi atas empat jari atau digit (''dáktylos'') atau dua "falang tengah" (''kóndylos''). Dua "tapak tangan" membentuk setengah-kaki (''hēmipódion'' atau ''dikhás''); tiga "tapak tangan", "[[Jengkal|spanjengkal]]" (''spithamḗ''); empat "tapak tangan", kaki (''poûs''); lima "tapak tangan", hasta pendek (''pygōn'');<ref name=cox>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary, ''4th ed.'' |editor=Simon Hornblower |editor2=Anthony Spawforth |editor3=Esther Eidinow |display-editors=0 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2012 |contribution-url=https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA917 |p=[https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA917 917] |contribution=measures |author-first=Frederick Norman |author-last=Pryce |author2=Mabel L. Lang |author3=Michael Vickers |display-authors=1 |ref={{harvid|Pryce & al.|2012}} }}.</ref> dan enam "tapak tangan", hasta (''pēkhys'').