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Furlong (fur) - traditional length unit
Furlong is an Imperial/US customary unit historically used in surveying and still common in horse racing. Used as one-eighth of a mile and equal to ten chains.
- Symbol: fur (also seen as f)
- System: Imperial/US customary
- Exact relations: 1 fur = 220 yd = 660 ft = 10 chains = 40 rods = 1/8 mi
- Metric equivalents: 1 fur = 201.168 m = 0.201168 km (exact)
- Typical examples: flat horse races (e.g., 5f, 6f, 7f); historical field/survey lengths
Barleycorn - traditional English length unit
Barleycorn is a historical unit of length in the Imperial/US systems, originally based on a grain of barley. Used today mainly as the step size in UK/Irish shoe sizing
- Symbol: none standardized (sometimes "bc")
- System: Imperial/US customary (historic)
- Exact relations: 1 barleycorn = 1/3 in (exact); 3 barleycorns = 1 in; 36 barleycorns = 1 ft
- Metric equivalents: 1 barleycorn = 25.4/3 mm ≈ 8.466666… mm ≈ 0.846666… cm
- Typical examples: consecutive UK shoe sizes differ by one barleycorn (≈ 1/3 in) in last length