It depends upon what kind of tape it is, how the graduations are sized, what tension the tape is held at, and (for a surveyor's tape) whether the first foot or dm is forward or backward from the zero point.
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You can use whatever units are printed on the measuring tape - just read the highest value off the tape. Then you can convert it to whatever units you want.Other than that - for instance, if you want to confirm whether the tape is accurate, measuring with ANOTHER measuring tape or some other method - I would use meters.
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