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What is the history and reasoning behind the British measuring with Stones?
How did it all start? Why are they still using it even though they use the metric system.
Is it more a part of their social heritage or something less interesting?
(please don't copy and paste an answer from Wikipedia, that's not how we roll)
Is it more a part of their social heritage or something less interesting?
(please don't copy and paste an answer from Wikipedia, that's not how we roll)
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Man's first method of doing math was probably one-to-one correspondence, because they didn't read or write. Not being able to do those led to a lot of improvisations. Another application of reading stones is the first rosaries. Most couldn't read Scripture, so they passed the stories of the life of Christ down the generations, and they tied stones together for what we now call decades of the rosary.
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