Gar (unit)
The gar was a measure of length in Mesopotamia .
- 1 cook = 5.94 meters
- 1 gar = 12 cubits (1 E. about 0.50 centimeters )
literature
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 99.
- Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 978-3-322-92921-1 , p. 163.
Individual evidence
- ↑ H.-W. Alten, A. Djafari Naini, B. Eick, M. Folkerts, H. Schlosser, K.-H. Schlote, H. Wesemüller-Kock, H. Wußing: 4000 years of algebra: history - cultures - people. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-38238-3 , p. 32.