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Subject:        Obsolete measurements of lengths
Date:   Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:36:31 -0500
From:   Toby Main <[log in to unmask]>
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Everybody has probably seen this, but I just came across it, so just in
case..

http://www.kb.nl/skd/mathemat.html


All those weird and wonderful old timey measurements explained.  Now if
we could just get a natural scale indicator with these on it...

Toby Main
State Library of New Mexico
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507


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