GK
INVENTIONS
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Question
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A body
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A step
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A double step
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A foot
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A hand
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, it was standardized as the distance of two steps (gradūs ) or five Roman feet (pedes), about 1.48 meters or 4 feet 10 inches. One thousand paces were described simply as mille passus or passuum, now known as a Roman mile; this is the origin of the English term “mile".
Detailed explanation-2: -Greeks and Romans used the foot as a unit of length (although a Roman foot was shorter than a Greek one), but the Romans were the first people to divide a foot into 12 smaller units.
Detailed explanation-3: -The image of a balance scale, called a libra by the Romans, decorates the front of this weight designed for use with just such an apparatus.
Detailed explanation-4: -libra, the basic Roman unit of weight; after 268 bc it was about 5, 076 English grains or equal to 0.722 pounds avoirdupois (0.329 kg).