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The Egyptians, and later the Greeks, based most units on the lengths of body parts.

Egyptians used the finger (about 1.875 cm), palm(about 7.5 cm), hand (both a 22.5 and 25 cm), and cubit (6 palms, about 45 cm, or 7 palms in the royal cubit).

The Greeks used the finger (daktylos), foot or pous (podes πόδια) and two forms of the pechys (roughly synonymous with the cubit/royal cubit). The Attic foot was about 11.6 inches or 29.6 cm. (The Aegina foot was longer.)

Greeks and Romans used a long length called the stadium(stadion στάδιο), equal to 600 pous or about 185 metres. Romans also used an early "mile" of 5000 feet and a "league" of 7500 feet (about 1.48 km and 2.2 km)

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