Sunday, 26 January 2020

Significance of Numbers - Imperial Measurements (NumberHub)

3 barley corns = 1 inch
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
1760 yards = 1 mile
1/8 of a mile = 1 furlong
1/10 of a furlong = 1 gunters chain
1/11 of a gunters chain = 1 fathom
15 fathoms = 1 shackles
or 100 fathoms = 1 cable
10 cables = 1 nautical mile
3 nautical miles  = a league
or 1 nautical mile = 6080 feet
1/3 of a foot = 1 hand
1/2 a hand = 1 stick
1/2 a stick = 1 inch
3 inches = 1 palm
1/4 of a palm = 1 digit
3 digits = 1 mail
4 nails = 1 span
2 spans = 1 cubit
1/3 of  cubit = 1 shatments
5 shatments = 1 pace
2 paces = 1 step
4 steps = 1 rope
5 ropes = 1 ramsdens chain
50 ramsdens chains = 1 roman mile
1 roman mile = 60,000 inches
1/6 of an inch = 1 pica
1/12 of a pica = 1 point
1 point = 20 twirps
or 6 points = a line
1 line = 1 poppy seed
4 poppy seeds = 1 barley corn

> How could this be translated into a piece of design?
> Have the imperial system be the main focus of the project - needs to have a focus otherwise there's too much to think about.





















> Trying to present the text in an easy way to read initially so i can build off of it somehow.
> Think about the alterations that could be made to communicate a sense of chaos and pure randomness.
 - different sized type
 - different colours
 - different weights
 - different typefaces
 - same typeface different fonts

1 inch = 3 barley corns
12 inch = 1 foot
36 inches = 1 yard
63360 = 1 mile
7920.02 = 1 furlong
792 inches = 1 gunters chain
72 inches = 1 fathom
1,080 inches =  1 shackles
720 inches = 1 cable
7,200 inches = 1 nautical mile
4 inches = 1 hand

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