On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Loveless >> >> On 10/3/09, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> > That site only gives conversions for English cubits. For some reason it >>> > is >>> > hard for me to believe that the personage Scott has been hearing from >>> > about >>> > boat building really intended English cubits. What we really need is a >>> > conversion table for Phoenician cubits or the like. >> >> http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_all.htm >> >> I vote that we start measuring everything in bee space. > > Doesn't seem to have Babylonian cubits, only Egyptian, English and Roman.
All of which are nearly the same length. However, the "Royal Egyptian" cubit is significantly shorter. Which means that we just saved a bunch of money on construction materials by switching to Royal Egyptian cubits. -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
