Convert barleycorn to cubit (Sumerian)
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Definition and details for barleycorn:
Barleycorn is an old English unit of distance equal to 1/3 inch or about 8.47 millimeters. In farming societies was very common to use seeds as units of length. Barley was a basic crop in England. So barleycorn was a useful unit.
Definition and details for cubit (Sumerian):
A copper bar, which is believed that it was the Sumerian Nippur cubit, found by the German Assyriologist Eckhard Unger during the WWI in 1916 at Nippur. This cubit is 518.616 mm with an assumed error of 1%.