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was a nice story about the water droplet think it said it was measured on a particular type of stone like granit anyway went to have a look and seen this a cubit is a covid !
1 Nov 2002 ... The Cubit also called Covid, unit of linear measure used by many ancient peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 BC; it thereafter ...
Cubit The #Cubit also #called #Covid, unit of linear measure used by many ancient peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 BC; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world. The cubit, usually equal to about 18 inches (457 mm), was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. In some cultures it was as long as 21 inches (531 mm).
ramnath
in reply to YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠) • • •AND IS THE BASE OF THE MEASURING SYSTEM
YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠)
in reply to YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠) • • •not quite, dear @ramnath ...
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ramnath
in reply to YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠) • • •was a nice story about the water droplet think it said it was measured on a particular type of stone like granit
anyway went to have a look and seen this a cubit is a covid !
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#Egyptian #Measures - Rootsweb
1 Nov 2002 ... The Cubit also called Covid, unit of linear measure used by many ancient peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 BC; it thereafter ...
Cubit
The #Cubit also #called #Covid, unit of linear measure used by many ancient peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 BC; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world. The cubit, usually equal to about 18 inches (457 mm), was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. In some cultures it was as long as 21 inches (531 mm).
YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠)
in reply to YA cannot die ⟶ ¿ (>‿◠) • • •ok, so it's an old unit...
in Austria we had a lot of measures... sound much better than da metric sys...
here are more old ones... 😀