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             For years societies used their bodies to measure things. The
             problem with this system is that people had different lengths of
             their body parts. That is why they were so inaccurate. These
             systems were only used to measure very small distances. The
             Babylonians were the first to develop a system of measurement.
             They created a unit of weight measurement called the stone. The
             stone was 14lbs. or 6350.2936 grams. This value was used for
             people who were herdsmen. The stone value for people who knit
             was 16lbs or 75257.784. and for a butcher it was 8lbs or
             3625.77grams. The two most advanced societies of ancient times
             the Greeks and the Egyptians used the wheat. This unit was the
             most accurate and uniform for their era. The wheat was one seed
             of grain measured out to be. They then took it and put on a
             balance. This was used when people would trade, and if they
             balanced out grain for fish, etc. Around the time of the Magma
             Carta was signed King Edward of England developed his own system.
             He ordered that a standard system of measure be created. King
             Edward was a visionary of his time. He ordered a golden yard
             stick. It was the length from his nose to the tip of his finger.
             The master yardstick was called the iron ulna. This was named
             after the forearm bone from which it was adapted from. This
             measurement was very close to present-day modern day accepted
             value for the yard. He also defined the inch as three
             barleycorns, round and dry. The world needed a standard system
             of measurement. There is nothing mathematical about the English
             system. The French found this as a problem and developed there
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