Villa is in charge of some "standard unit measuring tools", and she hopes that the "rope rulers" in the hands of the tribesmen are all given to her with the same length, so-called standard stika.
It’s actually not as simple as she thought. Is Vilia’s grasp really that standard? In fact, there is a slight gap between the so-called "standard one stika rope rule" of each tribe and the allied tribes in the south. So when trading linens and animal skins, merchants always had to add another thumb's length.
After all, there is only a lot more, and no one will suffer a big loss.
Villa happily showed: "This rope is one Stika length. It is used to measure the length of linen and animal skins. It can also measure your height. Now take off your leather boots and keep Stand up easily."
"Okay!"
Rurik stood up quickly. He also had other plans in mind, so he used the local length unit to measure. For your own height, estimate the difference between one stika and the standard one meter.
Maybe the difference is not very big.
Because he saw that Villa didn’t have to straighten his arms at all, the hemp rope was stretched straight, and it even looked like it was not much different from the "one meter" in his concept.
His estimate is correct!
Several units of length that have been commonly used in Scandinavia are actually very similar to the metric unit of length thousands of years later, and are even particularly similar to the "one meter" originally determined. It is purely a romance. coincidence.
Because of another dimension, French scientists hope to invent a unit of length that can be used across Europe. They used an immediate method to calculate the different lengths of shadows between Paris and Alexandria at the equinox, and then asked people to use ancient length units to measure the distance. They were stunned to calculate the arc length on the curved surface of the earth from Paris to the Port of Pressure Mountain.
With the arc length, it is assumed that the earth is a perfect ball, and it is logical to calculate the circumference of the entire sphere. Therefore, the distance from the North Pole to the equator is considered to be 10,000 kilometers, and the Earth's circle is artificially determined to be 40,000 kilometers.
Of course, because of the longitude difference between Paris and Alexandria, the "one meter" length obtained from the initial survey data was too small.
The initial scientific identification was in the first half of the 19th century, but the current era of Rurik is in the first half of the 9th century.
The two "one meters" are very similar, what a wonderful coincidence.
Rurik’s height was measured, because there were marks on the rope ruler that it had been divided into equal parts, and it was unexpectedly divided into ten parts.
It is not difficult to divide the rope into ten equal parts. The rope ruler must be divided into ten equal parts because humans have ten fingers.
The reason why humans unanimously love the decimal system is because humans have ten fingers.
However, in the east and west and even in the isolated American continent, civilized groups invariably gave birth to mystical worship of the twelve-digit system.
In Europe, because of theThe Kyoto ethnic group is indeed subordinate to the huge Germanic ethnic group, and many of the cultural factors are the same.
Their various languages have a common origin, and they all have unique markings on the reading of numbers from one to twelve.
In terms of trade, high-level currencies correspond to twelve low-level currencies.
Of course, this cultural phenomenon was the same in Eastern Rome.
Rurik stood obediently, while Vilia hunched over and tried to measure his body with a rope ruler.
"Not bad, it seems that you have exceeded one stika." Vilia shook his head.
"Grandma, do you think I should be shorter?"
"No. You will grow very tall, and your shortness is only temporary. For you, I need to change A new tool."
After a while, Villa took out an extended version of the ruler. According to him, this ruler is specially used for cutting curtains and curtains. The total length of the ruler is three. A stika.
She muttered: "It is impossible for a mortal to be as tall as three stikas. Only the giants of Asgard can. Unfortunately, no one has seen those giants, not even me who has lived for seventy years. The ordinary men I know can usually grow to one stika and one ell, and half an ell. I only remember your father's father's father, who was close to the height of two stikas, which was already very old. That's it. At that time, I was only your age."
As for the description of numbers, perhaps Europeans have never thought that numbers can be accurately described with very simple syllables.
In this regard, Eastern peoples may be able to do this easily because of the characteristics of their own languages.
There has always been an Eastern soul hidden under Rurik's body. He really understood Vilia's description of numbers, and converted it into Eastern terms, which is "1.75stika".
If you think about it for a moment, it seems like the Russians a thousand years later, maybe their superb mathematical level is tortured by the pronunciation of their extremely long numbers and the complexity of describing a long number. of perfection.
In this aspect alone, perhaps the situation of the French is even worse. To describe a long number such as "eighty", they are clearly just listing an arithmetic problem to explain that this is "eighty".
In the end, Villa measured the height of Rurik, who was only seven years old, which was barely 1.2stika.
She explained this result with a complicated description. Rurik's mind was very smart. He understood a precise value, but it was not clear whether the comparison between stika and "meter" was close. .
"Perhaps, a seven-year-old boy who is 120 centimeters should be about the same size. European children should grow earlier than Asians, and it should not be too early."
“But food is still too scarce in this era, IHe will definitely not grow too tall, and there are no really strong men in the tribe. "
"If it doesn't work, should I treat one stika as one meter in the future metric system? ”
Rurik thought about it in his mind. He really couldn’t imagine that the error between two measurement units in different time and space was surprisingly small.
He thought he was only 120 centimeters. In fact, he also realized that considering his age and the current living conditions of the tribesmen, it is quite good to be able to grow to his current height in a healthy way.
Let’s put his own thoughts on it. On the side, Rurik suddenly asked: "Grandma, is this normal for me? ”
“Your height? ”
“Yes! I'm still worried that I won't grow strong in the future. I want to be taller and stronger than my father. "
Welia was very happy to hear this. She patted the child on the head: "Very ambitious! You have to know that when you can show off your strong arm muscles in public, you will gain the respect of many men and the hearts of many girls. Your current height is not very high, but you have great potential. ”
“For this purpose, I should eat more?” "
"Correct. Like eat more meat, my kids. "Villa breathed a sigh of relief, "In a few days, those people who went north to hunt will come back. Pray for your father that if he catches more deer, you can eat meat until the frozen bay melts. ”
Rurik nodded deeply. Compared with seal meat or other fish meat, reindeer meat is more delicious.
In fact, when it comes to eating meat, this is also the case for Rurik. The Rus tribe needed a lot of wool, and when the weather was warm, many people rowed south to trade with their allies for Roman silver coins obtained from Novgorod. , or trading through beast leather. There is indeed an "invisible hand" in this regard that regulates the prices of various commodities.
The Ross tribe themselves will make balls of wool without any processing. The wool is woven into sweaters by women. The sweaters obtained by this manual processing are digested internally, and no one is willing to use the sweaters as commodities. Similarly, the purchased linen is made into twine and further woven. p>
For small-scale printing and dyeing of various wool and linen threads, the tribe has a very traditional and primitive "moss printing and dyeing technique", which is not suitable for large-scale printing and dyeing.
They get a lot of wool but rarely buy it. It is even rarer to get sheep and cattle. The southern allies raised sheep for wool and cattle for milk.
The absolute lack of productivity prevented the ancestors of the Swedes from eating these crazily." "Grass-eating production machines", unless a cold wave invades, they will eat frozen cattle and sheep.
Rosberg's geographical location is further north, which means it is colder. Due to the lack of pasture, livestock raising The cost-effectiveness of the industry is very poor. Only ocean fishing and hunting of animals are the most stable ways to obtain meat.
Rurik knows the delicacy of mutton and beef very well. He has cherished both kinds of meat since he was born seven years ago. On the contrary, it was as if reindeer meat was easily available, as if hunters were traveling further into the north, where forests and mossy moors were teeming with roaming reindeer herds.