Metric vs. other measurement systems - chart

**Philip Davies** · Mar 25, 2021, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by IntheGroove

What's a cubit? How long can you tread water...

Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.

**mklotz** · Mar 26, 2021, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Philip Davies

Roughly, from forefinger to elbow. Most encounter the word in the Bible (KJV) It’s before the walking on water bit.

Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

**Karl_H** · Mar 26, 2021, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...
First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

and a footnote:

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**Philip Davies** · Mar 26, 2021, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Also in the famous Christian proof that pi is equal to three...

"And he [Hiram] made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26

Yes, but, you see they had cubits for radii and longer cubits for circumference.

**mklotz** · Mar 26, 2021, 01:51 PM

Originally Posted by Philip Davies

Yes, but, you see they had cubits for radii and longer cubits for circumference.

Their god gave them a fairly exacting description of the box he wanted built...

It is to be 2-1/2 cubits in length, 1-1/2 in breadth, and 1-1/2 in height.

Given their freewheeling with the length of a cubit when building basins, they stood a good chance of botching the job and seeing a big finger pointing out of the sky and a booming voice, "You clumsy bastards, can't you get anything right?"

What is the "molten sea" mentioned in the biblical quote? Was "sea" an ancient name for a basin or is this just another mistranslation like the "horns" on Moses' head?

**marksbug** · Mar 25, 2021, 01:05 PM

my wifes way of mesure ment is eazer for me around the house......it's about this long.....

**Toolmaker51** · Mar 25, 2021, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by marksbug

my wifes way of mesure ment is eazer for me around the house......it's about this long.....

Can't resist.
Classic reference to the question 'how long has it been?'
"Well, it's been different lengths at different times!'
Hint, Henry McGee and Fred Scuttle

**IntheGroove** · Mar 25, 2021, 01:16 PM

Well it's not that long but it sure is short...

**bruce.desertrat** · Mar 26, 2021, 10:19 AM

Well it could be three in that case, just need some dude whose arm is just a bit longer than Hirams...

**katy** · Mar 26, 2021, 10:26 AM

"The size of 2 American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high."

I for one haven't a clue as to how long an "American football field" is, or any other football field either.
Then again how high is a "storie"? Is that like in a house? An apartment building? a skyscraper building? Or?

It sure bugs me when they throw in these ambiguous measurements that they expect everybody to know perxactly what they mean.