[RightWhale]

Who would have needed such a standard?

[bert]

......Who would have needed such a standard?.....

Now think on that....who needs standards? merchants and customers, especially those who deal in products like grain or maybe beer.

It is by the way, plural because other pyramidal standards are noted, including length and lattitude.

We sell grain by the bushel, a holdover from some ancient standard of measure. Strangely believe it geodesic measurements are pretty much the same today as then.