Convert barleycorns to cables (U.K. or Imperial or Admiralty) | Category : length

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Convert barleycorn to cable (U.K. or Imperial or Admiralty)

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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 cable (U.K. or Imperial or Admiralty):

Imperial cable length is a nautical unit of length equal to 1/10 nautical mile or 185.3184 meters based on the Admiralty mile.

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