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Measurements
Patented: History of Inventions
I've Been Thinking About This for a Long Time.
A collop is a unit that, as you sayn codes this information. That's really sensible. We don'tf anything like that any more. I think we do have sort of adhock measurements, but then they're not formalized in the same way. The thing is that these adha, these flexible measurements, got overtaken by very abstract, unchanging, consistent units of measurement - the metric system being the er. But i was actually thinking, i've been thinking about this, obviously, for a while. Youe os, you an really good book about it. It could be a barren hillside. Could be a piece of rock, could be nothing,
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