What is your height in cubits?

[craigwend]

3.66

 

[Hover Fly]

I don't believe the inch was standardised by a certain number of millimetres...

Until 1959 the USAian inch was slightly more than 25.4 mm, the rest of the world-except Canada-used slightly less than 25.4 mm Canada used 25.4 mm. It was to do with the standards being based on lengths of brass (yards)and60 F or platinum alloy at "themelting point of ice" (metre) depending on whether you based the calculations on cooling down the brass or warming up the platinum. The only time it caused a practical problem was repairing large electronic valves on USN ships in British dockyards, the valves were designed in metric but made on USA machine tools, thus replacement parts were slightly too small when made on British machines. The difference was about 3.7 millionths of an inch per inch.

 

[hoopdriver]

Until 1959 the USAian inch was slightly more than 25.4 mm, the rest of the world-except Canada-used slightly less than 25.4 mm Canada used 25.4 mm. It was to do with the standards being based on lengths of brass (yards)and60 F or platinum alloy at "themelting point of ice" (metre) depending on whether you based the calculations on cooling down the brass or warming up the platinum. The only time it caused a practical problem was repairing large electronic valves on USN ships in British dockyards, the valves were designed in metric but made on USA machine tools, thus replacement parts were slightly too small when made on British machines. The difference was about 3.7 millionths of an inch per inch.

True - in 1959

By then the cubit was slightly out of fashion, unless I am much mistaken

The original inch - and it was a legal measure for centuries before the metric system was dreamed up - was standardised by barleycorns and would seem to have been, pretty much, although not perhaps for use in USN dockyards, roughly what we garlic-and-onion proles would call an inch today.

 

[hoopdriver]

[QUOTE 2782519, member: 259"]But it's been standardised at exactly 25.4 millimetres for yonks. [/quote]
But we were talking about cubits... Yonks are different

 

[Dismount]

4.2

 

[ufkacbln]

Just as well they didn't make bicycles in biblical times. It's confusing enough working out what your frame size is.

They did!

There are a number of references to bikes (and cars)

After all "The roar of Moses' Triumph was heard throughout the land" is one reference

The car sharing scheme was also ahead of it's time - "The apostles were all in one Accord"

 

[welsh dragon]

3.5

 

[the_mikey]

3.63

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

3.83333333 cubits

or who cares?