he and others believed was equivalent to ten thousand six hundred ninety-two of our present-day meters eleven thousand six hundred ninety three yards the distance in the skies between the twenty six stars was calculated in the text as adding up to six hundred and fifty-five thousand two hundred Barrow drawn in the skies the availability of three different methods of measuring distances between stars conveys the great importance attached to the matter yet who among the men and women of Sumer needed such knowledge and who among them