length · Ancient Egyptian · New Kingdom cubit-rod attestations

remen

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Record: M156
Definition quality: Disputed
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Definition

1 remen = 5 palms = 20 digits; representative ≈37.5 cm

Documented range

Surviving evidence places one remen between 0.37357143 and 0.37785714 metres. It is recorded as a range because the documented values were not uniform.

History & use

UCL notes that special subdivisions such as the remen occur on formalized rods but have not been found in accounts.

Modern use

Modern use is context-dependent and varies by region or measurement system.

Sources & evidence

Source tier — · confidence high

Related measurements

metre

length · International · Modern

SI base unit of length. Its definition fixes the speed of light in vacuum at exactly 299,792,458 m/s, with the second defined from the caesium-133 hyperfine frequency.