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  2. Picul - Wikipedia

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    In imperial China and later, the unit was used for a measure equivalent to 100 catties. [8] In 1831, the Dutch East Indies authorities acknowledged local variances in the definition of the pikul. [9] In Hong Kong, one picul was defined in Ordinance No. 22 of 1844 as 133 + 1 ⁄ 3 avoirdupois pounds. [5] The modern definition is exactly 60. ...

  3. Catty - Wikipedia

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    Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1 ⁄ 16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan ( 鈞 ) is 30 catties. Catty or kati is still used in Southeast Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations ...

  4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    KerMetric time is a concept that divides the day into 100 equal parts called kermits. Each kermit is equivalent to 14.4 minutes. More precise time can be counted by dividing by 1000 or even 10000. The name kermit came from a combination of the surname of Dr. Larkin Kerwin, president of the National Research Council in 1983, with the word ...

  5. Chinese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 ⁄ 100: 5 g 0.1764 oz mace or Chinese dram: liǎng: 市兩: 1 ⁄ 10: 50 g 1.764 oz tael or Chinese ounce: jīn: 市斤: 1 500 g 1.102 lb catty or Chinese pound formerly 16 liang = 1 jin dàn: 市擔: 100 50 kg 110.2 lb picul or Chinese hundredweight

  6. How long it really takes to fall through the Earth - AOL

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    The original calculations assumed that the Earth has the same density throughout - and the gravitational force changes as you approach the center, much like the weight of a spring that bounces up ...

  7. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    According to Knuth, the basis of this new revolutionary system is the potrzebie, which equals the thickness of Mad issue 26, or 2.263 348 451 743 817 321 6473 mm. [4] Volume was measured in ngogn (equal to 1000 cubic potrzebies), mass in blintz (equal to the mass of 1 ngogn of halva, which is "a form of pie [with] a specific gravity of 3.1416 ...

  8. Tael - Wikipedia

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    In French Indochina, the colonial administration fixed the tael (lạng) as 100 g, which is commonly used at food markets where many items typically weigh in the 100–900 g range. However, a different tael (called cây , lạng , or lượng ) unit of 37.5 g is used for domestic transactions in gold.

  9. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The outhouse is a unit of area used in nuclear physics equal to 10 −6 barns (100 am 2 = 10 −34 m 2). The barn (b) is a unit of area used in nuclear physics equal to one hundred femtometres squared (100 fm 2 = 10 −28 m 2). The are (a) is a unit of area equal to 100 m 2. The decare (daa) is a unit of area equal to 1000 m 2.