There's a whole new set of units for us to standardise on...

[Fat Tone]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/25/mesopotamian_nil_cubit/

[Brian Ellis]

Just when I thought we had, at last, given up on the cubit. The donum and the oke are still current here, especially the former.

[Elie]

So my father wasn't crazy when he would say that our farm was 115 Donum. It's long gone but it stretched over a Km.

[Brian Ellis]

Wow, that would be quite a size here, about 15½ hectares (the average is 3.6 ha)! However, not quite as big as Texan farms! The average English farm is about 40 hectares but there has been a lot of consolidation there and the average has doubled in the last 20-30 years..