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[โ€“] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. There are like 3 types of rulers: normal (a stick), foldable (this) and those retractable metallic strips.

Sticks are usually either 15 or 30 cm, while the foldables are literally always 2m.

The coils are the most ubiquitous, but I orefer the foldavles for most things since they tend to fall undet their own weight when measuring longer distances. These sre either 2 or 5 m I think.

[โ€“] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

We have the coils too, except we call it a measuring tape.

We also have have a flexible soft version used for measuring human proportions for clothing, but it's called a "tape measure" for some reason.

I wish we had the foldable kind, that sounds useful.