In Haiti, Mauritius and the Seychelles, 20th century (UN, 1966, a unit of length, = 2.25 millimeters (about 0.0886 inches).
This is a colonial descendent of a pre-metric French unit, 1 ligne = 1⁄12 pouce, about 2.25583 millimeters (about 0.088814 inches). In France, the ligne survived into the 19th century in the jewelry trade.
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