DOES AN INCH REALLY MATTER? That depends on who’s asking.
There are those who’d suggest an inch matters an awful lot, the scientific community among them. After all, countless hours went into defining the measure, with the specifics debated and defined and ultimately settled at some point so long ago that most people have probably never had reason to care about how the unit came to be.
As the story goes, the creation of the inch dates back more than a millennium. It has, at different times, been designated as the depth of a wound, the width of an average man’s thumb and, most commonly, the length of three barleycorns, all of which seem so unbelievably imprecise and antiquated that it’s hard to believe the latter managed to remain the accepted dimension…
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