Talk:Hand (unit)

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a hand comprises three inch-long steps

Wouldn't a four-inch hand consist of four one-inch steps? —Michael Z. 2006-09-21 23:05 Z

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Note that Template:Hands is up and working. It renders standard measurements automatically:i.e. 15.1 hands (61 inches, 155 cm) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Montanabw (talk • contribs) 00:10, 23 August 2009

Google's unit converter still thinks 2 inches is 0.5 hands. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD89:8710:E897:41C2:F449:BEE0 (talk) 17:13, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes, I can find citations that one hand is four inches in Hand (unit), but I could also find citations that a hand would be three inches in the same article, like in http://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Hand_%28unit%29&diff=614971830&oldid=610546747 (my edit, and the citations stayed) "A hand breadth (palmus), the breadth of the four fingers of the hand, or three inches" and "A hand, or measure of lengths comprising three inches". And that's one of my problems with 18th-century units: if I buy a house, land, resources (or in your case a horse); I want to know what the sellers units mean. Units used in the modern world are SI: only some monolingual; mostly 18th, 19th, or 20th century enclaves disagree. Why would I buy a horse of 4 hands there, it could be any length, probably 16 or 12 metric inches (40.6cm or 30.5cm rounded), but a seller with small (or large) hands or thumbs could make it much smaller (or larger), and I don't want to fight such cases in courts in those last enclaves. --80.114.178.7 (talk) 22:06, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Measurements such as the inch or foot also once had multiple possible lengths but have been standardized. Your argument fails. A hand has been standardized at four inches for over a hundred years. Montanabw ^(talk) 22:55, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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