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Convert barleycorn to pouce de Roi (French inch)
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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 pouce de Roi (French inch):
"Pouce de Roi" is the Paris inch. This traditional unit of lengh is equal to 750/27706 meter or about 27.07 mm. The Paris inch could be subdivided into 12 ligne (the Paris line), and 12 Paris inches made a Paris foot.
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