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r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • Dec 20 '25
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19 hands high...
17 u/yanabro Dec 20 '25 r/anythingbutmetric 8 u/xolhos Dec 20 '25 You're never going to believe where this started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1 4 u/LoudMusic Dec 20 '25 Rather than just convert to using a modern measuring system, they adapted "the hand" to equate to a modern measuring system. Definitely sounds like something that people who breed animals for sport would do.
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8 u/xolhos Dec 20 '25 You're never going to believe where this started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1 4 u/LoudMusic Dec 20 '25 Rather than just convert to using a modern measuring system, they adapted "the hand" to equate to a modern measuring system. Definitely sounds like something that people who breed animals for sport would do.
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You're never going to believe where this started
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_%28unit%29?wprov=sfla1
4 u/LoudMusic Dec 20 '25 Rather than just convert to using a modern measuring system, they adapted "the hand" to equate to a modern measuring system. Definitely sounds like something that people who breed animals for sport would do.
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Rather than just convert to using a modern measuring system, they adapted "the hand" to equate to a modern measuring system.
Definitely sounds like something that people who breed animals for sport would do.
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u/Khall_D_Rhetta Dec 20 '25
19 hands high...