The Romans weighed, counted and measured in pounds, aces and feet respectively, all divided into twelve units (for example, an ace = twelve unciae). Without doubt, the Romans chose the decimal system (still in force and used since the early days of Ancient Egypt, 5000 years ago) to be able to count on the fingers of both hands (one is a finger, five open hand ten two hands crossed, IVX). Duodecimal system usage was used in Mesopotamia, possibly because of having the phalanges of the fingers, because it is a number divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 and, perhaps, being associated with twelve cycles of the moon. In the forum of the Roman cities remained guarded religiously ponderaria mensa, with contrasting patterns for weights and measures that were used in commercial transactions. Surface measure or record was the actus geodesic (equivalent to half days work) and jugerum (of jugum = yoke or yoke, which was equivalent to a full day's work.) An actus was equivalent to 120 square feet. Although theoretically surface measurements were rather work measures. Later by Greek influence, changed the units (persisting only the surface) and the Roman foot was 24/25 Greek parties, was matched to it. The foot remained divided into twelve parts, but also introduced the division into four parts (palmus), and in sixteen fingers (Digitus). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0, additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for more information.
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