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  2. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    40 sers = 1 maund (= 34 kg 8 hg 3 dag 5g 9 dg 2.6 cg /34.835926 kilograms) 1 rattī = 1.75 grains (= 0.11339825 gram/113 milligrams 398 1/4 micrograms 4 attograms ) (1 grain = 0.064799 gram) From 1833 the rupee and tolā weight was fixed at 180 grains, i.e. 11.66382 grams. Hence the weight of 1 maund increased to 37.324224 kilogram. [3]

  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. Picul - Wikipedia

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    In modern Malay, pikul is also a verb meaning 'to carry on the shoulder'. In the early days of Hong Kong as a British colony, the stone (石, with a Cantonese pronunciation given as shik) was used as a measurement of weight equal to 120 catties or 160 pounds (72.6 kg), alongside the picul of 100 catties. [5]

  5. Help:Convert units - Wikipedia

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    Unit type Unit code Unit name Area: a: are: m2: square metre Charge: coulomb: coulomb Energy: J: joule Force: N: newton Length: m: metre Magnetic field strength: T ...

  6. Tael - Wikipedia

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    (Coin's diameter c. 2.5 cm) Tael (/ ˈ t eɪ l /), [1] or liang, also known as the tahil and by other names, can refer to any one of several weight measures used in East and Southeast Asia.

  7. Seer (unit) - Wikipedia

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    A standard seer from Almora, India.. A Seer (also sihr) is a traditional unit of mass and volume used in large parts of Asia prior to the middle of the 20th century. It remains in use only in a few countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, and parts of India although in Iran it indicates a smaller unit of weight than the one used in India.

  8. Malay units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    For mass, the catty [1] equals 0.6 kg. [2] Another unit is picul which equals 60 kg. [3] Volume ... 160 727374.4 Note: The millilitre equivalences are exact.

  9. Devanagari numerals - Wikipedia

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    The word śūnya for zero was calqued into Arabic as صفر sifr, meaning 'nothing', which became the term "zero" in many European languages via Medieval Latin zephirum. [ 1 ] Variants