Anthony Wrote:
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> Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> > "In your opinion, where did the cubit of 6
> palms
> > with four digits to a palm come from"
> >
> > If I had to make an educated guess..
> > Either Khasekhemwy's or Sneferu's Arm and
> Hand
> > relationship.
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> Yeah, I'm just looking at the palm of my hand, and
> I'll be darned if it isn't 4 digits wide.
>
> Whoda thunk it?
>
> Anthony

Mock not.

Place your elbow on the table and hold your forearm vertically with fingers fully extended.
Measure from elbow/tabletop to tip of middle extended finger.
Divide measure by 6
Compare result to width of your four fingers at their base.
The natural ratio is obvious.
Width of palm (four fingers/digits) = 1/6 elbow to tip of middle finger.
As I have mentioned before, I have tested this on a number of people, male and female, young and old.
It's not exact, it can only be an approximation but it works rather well.
Pertinently, all of the measurements I took were (if memory serves) closer to 1 divided by 6 than 1 divided by 7.

When I asked Clive, 'In your opinion, where did the cubit of 6 palms with four digits to a palm come from', I was not stupidly asking whose arm was the template but whether Clive sees the cubit as anthropometric.

MJ