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Human societies have used pebbles, nuts, barleycorn , bones, twigs, yarrow stalks, polished sticks, cards, coins, and dice the list goes on and on to make decisions that are transparently fair.
The weight of a barleycorn , later renamed the grain is the original basis of all English weight systems.
Here is a barleycorn of a different kind to those which grow in the farmer's fields, and which the chickens eat; put it into a flower-pot, and see what will happen.
Each barleycorn was one third on an inch, which added up to 12 inches or one "foot."
In England and Scotland, at least as early as the 12th century an inch was thought of as 3 barleycorns laid end to end.
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