Essential tools for households – Types of tape measures and how to read them

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A tape measure is a commonly used measuring tool in daily life. What people often see is a steel tape measure, which is commonly used in construction and renovation, and is also one of the essential tools for households. The main types of tape measures are steel tape measures; followed by fiber tape measures, which are the leather tapes often seen on Jingbo Cloud Commerce. Many people refer to them as cloth tapes. There are also waist measurement tapes (sewing tapes and measuring tapes all fall into this category). Its material is PVC plastic and glass fiber, with the glass fiber preventing the tape measure from stretching out during use. Their reading method is as follows: the back side of the tape measure has imperial units marked on it: chi, shen ； On a standard tape measure, the numbers are arranged in two rows: one row uses centimeters/CM as the unit, while the other uses inches. 1 CM is approximately equal to 0.3937 inches, and 1 inch is approximately equal to 2.54 CM. Therefore, the unit with shorter numbers corresponds to centimeters, and the unit with longer numbers corresponds to inches. The font size for the centimeter values is also smaller than that for the inch values; as a result, centimeters are generally used as the unit of measurement.