Hand (unit) Biblical exegesis the hand measurement, as for example in the Vision of the Temple, Authorized Version , is usually taken to be palm or handbreadth, and in modern translations may be rendered as "handbreadth" or "three inches". The hand is a traditional unit in the UK. It was standardised at four inches by a statute of King Henry VIII in 1540, but some confusion between the various types of hand measurement, and particularly between the hand and the handsbreadth, appears to have persisted. Phillips's dictionary of 1706 gives four inches for the length of the handful or hand, and three
Unit measure a false premise to the associated argument. Unit measure Unit measure is an axiom of probability theory that states that the probability of the entire sample space is equal to one (unity); that is, "P"("S")=1 where "S" is the sample space. Loosely speaking, it means that "S" must be chosen so that when the experiment is performed, "something" happens. The term "measure" here refers to the measure-theoretic approach to probability. Violations of unit measure have been reported in arguments about the outcomes of events under which events acquire "probabilities" that are not the probabilities of probability theory. In situations such