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The ancient Egyptian royal cubit (meh niswt) is the earliest attested standard measure.Cubit rods were used for the measurement of length.A number of these rods have survived: two are known from the tomb of Maya, the treasurer of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, in Saqqara; another was found in the tomb of Kha in Thebes.
An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).
During the Ptolemaic period, the cubit strip square was surveyed using a length of 96 cubits rather than 100, although the aroura was still figured to compose 2,756.25 m 2. [17] A 36 square cubit area was known as a kalamos and a 144 square cubit area as a hamma. [17]
cubit: 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 pedes 444 mm 1.456 ft gradus pes sestertius step: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 pedes 0.74 m 2.427 ft passus pace: 5 pedes 1.48 m 4.854 ft decempeda pertica: perch: 10 pedes 2.96 m 9.708 ft actus: path, track 120 pedes 35.5 m 116.496 ft 24 passus or 12 decembeda stadium: stade 625 pedes 185 m 607.14 ft 600 Greek feet or 125 passus
The (Persia) cubit of about 500.1 mm or 9 ⁄ 8 of the Roman cubit, which is also 9 ⁄ 10 of the guard cubit. The (England) cubit 45.72 cm or 457.2mm In Izapa, a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican city, the measuring unit was equivalent to about 495 mm, very close to the Lagash cubit .
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The Nippur cubit was one of the oldest known units of length. The oldest known metal standard for length corresponds to this Sumerian unit and dates from 2650 BCE. [7] [8] This copper bar was discovered in Nippur, on the banks of the Euphrates, and is kept in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
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