Units of measurement in France before the French Revolution (league) had a number of variations, particularly the "aune" (which was used to measure cloth The "loi du 19 frimaire an VIII" (Law of 10 December 1799) states that one decimal metre is exactly 443.296 French lines, or "3 pieds 11.296 lignes de la "Toise du Pérou"". Thus the French royal foot is exactly 9000/27,706 metres (about 0.3248 m). In Quebec, the surveys in French units were converted using the relationship 1 "pied" (of the French variety, the same word being used for English feet as well) = 12.789 English inches. This makes the Quebec "pied" very slightly smaller (about
Recessive Pied budgerigar mutation in appearance to the wild-type Light Green. That is, the presence of a single wild-type allele is sufficient to permit the full production and normal distribution of the black melanin pigment. Among the budgerigar fancy such a bird is said to be a Light Green split recessive pied, usually written Light Green/recessive pied. In a bird which has two Recessive Pied alleles (the homozygote, "r / r" ), the lack of the wild-type allele means that normal black melanin pigment is suppressed in random areas over the body. The factors governing the distribution of the residual pigmentation are not known.