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Convert barleycorn to cable (U.S. customary and Navy)
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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.S. customary and Navy):
U.S. customary or U.S. Navy cable length is a nautical unit of length equal 120 fathoms or 720 feet or 219.456 meters.
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