At 1:21 PM -0400 10/28/08, Tom B wrote: > >[TomB] Well, a lot of our measures are drawn from common things of olden >ages... Road widths somewhat tie to horse/wagon widths, a pound is a useful >unit for food measurement because it has some correspondence with what you >might use making a meal (or a half pound would). A foot is somewhat like a >foot. A yard is somewhat like the distance of a long stride or fingertip to >armpit for some. A quart is about what you'd carry in a canteen. Using stones >as weight might make some sense. Etc.
And you can count to 144 (a gross) with your two hands an nothing else to mark on. Grocers bought things in units of a gross or more and sold them individually or in smaller sets (dozens). -- -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Data Center Operations Group - - http://web.turner.com/data_center/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Ryan Montieth Gill One CNN Center SE0813 E - - Internet Technologies -- Data Center Operations - - Hours 9:30am - 5:30pm Mon - Fri (8Sdc, 10Sdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - - Cellular: 404-545-6205 ( Suwanee and Manassas DCs) - - Office: 404-588-6191 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Emergency Power-off != Door release! - ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gzg-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu:1337/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gzg-l --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ground Zero Games" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gzg-group?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
