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The palm was not a major unit in ancient Mesopotamia but appeared in ancient Israel as the tefah, [7] tepah, [8] or topah [8] (Hebrew: טפח, lit. "a spread"). [9] Scholars were long uncertain as to whether this was reckoned using the Egyptian or Babylonian cubit, [7] but now believe it to have approximated the Egyptian "Greek cubit", giving a value for the palm of about 74 mm or 2.9 in. [8]
A football field is often used as a comparative measurement of length when talking about distances that may be hard to comprehend when stated in terms of standard units. An American football field is usually understood to be 100 yards (91 m) long, though it is technically 120 yards (110 m) when including the two 10 yd (9.1 m) long end zones ...
Ancient Roman units of length Roman unit English name Equal to Metric equivalent Imperial equivalent Notes digitus: finger: 1 ⁄ 16 pes 18.5 mm 0.728 in 0.0607 ft uncia pollex inch thumb 1 ⁄ 12 pes 24.6 mm 0.971 in 0.0809 ft palmus (minor) palm 1 ⁄ 4 pes 74 mm 0.243 ft palmus maior: palm length (lit."greater palm") 3 ⁄ 4 pes 222 mm
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.
Hand geometry readers measure a user's palm and fingers along many dimensions including length, width, deviation, and angle and compare those measurements to measurements stored in a file. [ 3 ] History
Egyptian units of length are attested from the Early Dynastic Period.Although it dates to the 5th dynasty, the Palermo stone recorded the level of the Nile River during the reign of the Early Dynastic pharaoh Djer, when the height of the Nile was recorded as 6 cubits and 1 palm [1] (about 3.217 m or 10 ft 6.7 in).
Image shows the measurement procedure of dorsal digit length using vernier calipers. The hand is placed on the edge of a table so that fingers are rested on table while making an angle of 90 degrees to the palm. The digit ratio is a pseudoscience involving the ratio taken of the lengths of different digits or fingers on a hand.
Smaller units of length Unit Greek name Equal to Modern equivalent Description daktylos δάκτυλος: 19.3 mm (0.76 in) finger kondylos κόνδυλος: 2 daktyloi 38.5 mm (1.52 in) knuckle palaistē or dōron παλαιστή, δῶρον: 4 daktyloi 77.1 mm (3.04 in) palm dichas or hēmipodion διχάς, ἡμιπόδιον: 8 daktyloi