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The tola ( Hindi: तोला / Urdu: تولا, romanized : tolā; also transliterated as tolah or tole) is a traditional Ancient Indian and South Asian unit of mass, now standardised as 180 grains ( 11.6638038 grams) or exactly 3⁄8 troy ounce. It was the base unit of mass in the British Indian system of weights and measures introduced in ...
Omer (unit) Sheaves of wheat: one sheaf is approximately one omer in dry volume. The omer ( Hebrew: עֹ֫מֶר ‘ōmer) is an ancient Israelite unit of dry measure used in the era of the Temple in Jerusalem and also known as an isaron. [ 1] It is used in the Bible as an ancient unit of volume for grains and dry commodities, and the Torah ...
The problem may be solved using simple addition. With 64 squares on a chessboard, if the number of grains doubles on successive squares, then the sum of grains on all 64 squares is: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + ... and so forth for the 64 squares. The total number of grains can be shown to be 2 64 −1 or 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 (eighteen quintillion ...
1 Kancha = 5 Siki. 1 Chhataank = 4 Kancha. 1 Chhataank = 5 Bhari. 1 Adh-pav = 2 Chhatank = 1/8 Seer. 1 Pav = 2 Adh-pav = ¼ Seer (Pav means ¼) The unit pav is still used to this date however, it has been modified to "a fourth of a kilogram". 1 Adher = 2 Pav = ½ Seer. In Hindi ½ Seer = Adha (½) Seer, or Adher.
The Government of the People's Republic of China continued using the market system along with metric system, as decreed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China on 25 June 1959, but 1 catty being 500 grams, would become divided into 10 (new) taels, instead of 16 (old) taels, to be converted from province to province, while ...
Pao (unit) The pao is a unit of dry measure (mass) which is used in South Asia. The name may come from the Punjabi ਪਾਓ páo, which was a traditional charge of one quarter of a seer per every maund of grain that was weighed, converted into a tax by Sawan Mal. [1] Turner also cites a Sindhi word pāu ( پاءُ) meaning a quarter of a seer ...
The tonne (t) is an SI-compatible unit of mass equal to a megagram ( Mg ), or 10 3 kg. The unit is in common use for masses above about 10 3 kg and is often used with SI prefixes. For example, a gigagram ( Gg) or 10 9 g is 10 3 tonnes, commonly called a kilotonne .
In descending size, 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, and 2 tael weights. In China, there were many different weighting standards of tael depending on the region or type of trade. In general the silver tael weighed around 40 grams (1.3 ozt). The most common government measure was the Kuping (庫平; kùpíng; 'treasury standard') tael, weighing 37.5 grams ...