001 = Sizing Shoes and Selling Organs
A Problem Squared
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The Barley Corn Scale Is 12 Millimeters Shorter Than 12 Inches
Each size you go down from 12 is a third of an inch smaller, which is about 8.4 millimeters. So if you're the same barley corn or like, you can use several barley corns. The whole scale is then shifted by five millimeters and it's a nightmare. It is a linear scale, but it goes up in multiples of barley corns and 12 is 12, except you got to shift it off by a fifth of an inch.
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