From: Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: OT world history: other measuring systems?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:44:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dd4626b-e9e5-b2a9-66b4-47014e1fc195@fiee.net> (raw)
Hi all,
just out of curiosity and since some of you are knowledgable in many
fields: Were there widely accepted measuring systems in Asia before the
introduction of the imperial or metric system? In Europe there was a
mess of local miles, feet, cubits, inches etc.; why didn’t "we" stick to
the Roman system?
(Also Knuth’s Potrzebie system unfortunately couldn’t unite the world...
https://webmadness.net/blog/?post=knuth ;))
Hraban
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-25 9:44 Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context [this message]
2022-01-25 17:27 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2022-01-25 17:45 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-01-25 19:41 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-01-25 23:20 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-01-25 19:28 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2022-01-25 20:31 ` Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context
2022-01-25 23:17 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-01-26 8:41 ` Otared Kavian via ntg-context
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