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It seems clear to me and others have said it that the Megalithic Pole of 6MY is a variation on the English Pole. The counterpart of the Megalithic Yard is then 33 inches which is a Spanish Vara and also an Indian Akbar Yard. The English Pole belonged originally to the system which we know as Sumerian. It is equal to 10 Sumerian cubits. I believe that the system came originally from Asia Minor and spread into Europe with farming. The Indian system is descended from the measure of the Indus civilization which has similarity to Sumeria. There is a measure called the Jarib which is 60 Akbar yards which is 10 English poles.
The Megalithic Yard multiplied by 10/7 gives a French Aune. The Vara to the Aune equals the English Pole to the French Pole which is the square root of 2. The reason for this relationship lies in units of area. Ten English poles make a jarib and a square jarib equals a biga of a 100 sq English poles. Ten French poles form the side of a square of area 100 sq French poles which is an Arpent. The side of the square is a also a jarib multiplied by the square root of 2 so an Arpent equals 2 biga. The Biga is also found in the west where it is superimposed on Roman measure and called a Jugerum. Two jugera made a Heredium equal to an arpent.
The Jugerum was equal to the aukward number of 12,800 sq cubits. I suspect that Bronze Age users of Roman measure had to incorporate already existing units of land area in to their system.
I believe that megalithic people modified the relationship with French so that the square root of 2 was substituted for 10/7. The Spanish Vara then became a megalithic yard and the English pole, a megalithic pole. They then related to the French Aune and Pole in multiples of 7. This allowed the use of the Pi ratio of 22/7 in the design of stone circles.
Roman and Greek measure is related to Near Easter measure. Like there, there is a cubit of 3/2 feet. Roman measure is closely related to Egyptian. The Statilian Roman foot is equal to 16 Roman/Egyptian digits. Both systems had a palm of 4 digits and the Egyptian Remen (foot) of 20 digits was a Roman palmipes. The Aune is equal to 4 Roman feet. I believe that this is a consequence of the relationship between Sumerian and Egyptian rather than something deliberately created. I have shown by means of my loop that the Aune works out as this. The Sumerian Cubit to the Egyptian Royal Cubit equals 24:25. This is the same relationship as between Roman and Greek and is 3:Pi in 25/8 format.
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