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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2021 22:24:07 GMT
. In the modern Hebrew system of keeping time, there is a unit known as the " chelek "
The word means " portion "
It's used in the Bible 
It's from the Mesopotamian unit of the " grain ", pronounced " she ". Like the " garden ", it is a fundamental unit of measurement
This really shouldn't come as a shock when you consider the Fertile Crescent was known for grain crops, and that beer, bread, grain and measurement were all intimately linked together in both Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies
Under Naram-Sin's reformation of metrology:
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Post by Admin on Feb 26, 2021 5:31:54 GMT
. The duration of a part or chelek equals the earlier Babylonian barleycorn (pronounced she), the smallest Babylonian time unit, which was 1/72 of a time degree. The time degree was the principal Babylonian unit of time, corresponding to the time required for one degree of motion of Sun across the meridian = 1/360 of a solar day = 1440 minutes per day/360 time degrees per day = 4 minutes per time degree. Thus 4 minutes divided by 72 = 1/18 of a minute = 1 chelek. The time degree also very nearly equals the difference in duration between the solar day and sidereal day, which in the present era amounts to about 3 minutes and 55.9 seconds. The Babylonian finger was 6 barleycorns = 1/12 of a time degree = 1/3 of a minute = 20 seconds of time. The cubit was 180 barleycorns = 5/2 time degrees = 10 minutes of time. The hour itself, corresponding to 15 time degrees, was a Seleucid time unit that was probably obtained from Egypt. The Babylonian beru or double hour, corresponded to 30 time degrees. The mean synodic month in Babylonian time units was 29 days, 6 double hours, 11 time degrees, and 1 barleycorn  The name of the Mesopotamian Moon god " Sin " was often written as the numeral " 30 "  In addition, the term 30 appears in calculating the approximate distance between the Moon and the Earth - 30 Earth diameters  Another contributing factor in the Mesopotamian custom of writing the name of the Moon as 30 is the fact that during the Synodic month, the Moon and the Earth travel 30 degrees per month  ...  This " maps " pi to the figurate 666 ( By " map ", I mean in the loose sense of having a trivial mathematical relationship that the Mesopotamians and Egyptians would have considered significant ) Perhaps similar to what we would call a " bijection " in modern mathematics ( A 1 to 1 correspondence )  ... cf Egyptian cubit... ============== Notes |
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 22:53:51 GMT
. The relationship between the unit of the " grain " and the unit of the " garden "   ================= Notes |
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Post by Admin on Feb 27, 2021 23:22:26 GMT
. The pendulum defined under Naram-Sin's reformation of metrology, was 972 millimeters + 27 millimeters
972 millimeters was the length of the string in grain ( 2.7 x 360 ) = 972
27 millimeters was the length of the weight of the pendulum ( 2.7 x 10 ) = 27
972 + 27 = 999  This shows that by the time of Naram-Sin's reformation of metrology, this concept of gravity being linked by the meter and the second was already well established ( Thousands of years before Newton )  ============= Notes |
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Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2021 17:06:36 GMT
. Using the intercalary term, 25,920, which represents the number of parts to one day, the powers of ten, and the grain, representing the time degree fraction, we can calculate a close approximation to the speed of light, ( Provided we apply the unit of the mile and the second )  We can write this also as:  We can approach it from another angle  This knowledge is built into the Egyptian Royal cubit rod  ...  ============= Notes |
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2021 20:24:54 GMT
.  As discussed in my thread on the number 296 HERE, the terms 703 and 720 are interchangeable in that they can both be used to connect the term 296 as well as the number of millimeters in the grain unit of measurement  ============= Notes |
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2021 17:34:53 GMT
In archery, the grain is the standard unit used to weigh arrows
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