What is the answer to some ancient civilizations used units of measure based on the length of certain seeds. What kinds of problems might you expect with such a system?

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What is the answer to some ancient civilizations used units of measure based on the length of certain seeds. What kinds of problems might you expect with such a system?

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Not all the seeds will be the same length so they cannot get the same measurements each time.

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