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== Dutch system == {{Unreferenced section|date=November 2019}} The Dutch system was not standardised until Napoleon introduced the metric system. Different towns used measures with the same names but differing sizes. Some common measures: === Length === *''duim'' –2.54 cm *''kleine palm'' –3 cm *''grote palm'' –9.6 cm, after 1820, 10 cm *''voet'' –12 duim = abt. 29.54 cm, many local variations *''el'' – about 70 cm === Volume === *''Pint'' – 0.6 L === Weight === *''Ons, Once'' – {{frac|1|16}} pond = 30.881 g *''Pond'' (Amsterdam) – 494.09 g (other ponds were also in use) *''Scheepslast'' – 4000 Amsterdam ''pond'' = 1976.4 kg = 2.1786 short tons
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