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       Weights and Measures
   DIR By: Jinxed
       Date: August 15, 2022, 8:13 pm
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       Gorean Weight         Earth Weight
       1 Gorean stone        4 pounds
       1 Gorean weight (10 stones) 40 pounds
       Liquid Volume Gorean Earth
       1 TALU                2 U.S gallons
       Distance Gorean              Earth
       1 HORT                                    1 and 1/4 inches
       1 GOREAN FOOT (10 horts)       12 and 1/2 inches
       1 AH-IL                                    18 inches (approx*)
       1 AH-RAL (10 ah-il)                   180 inches (approx. 15 U.S
       feet)
       1 PASANG                                 7/10ths (.7) of a mile
       (3,696 U.S
       
       feet)
       ah-il, ah-ral
       "Cloth is measured in the ah-il, which is the length from the
       elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and the ah-ral, which is
       ten ah-ils."
       Tribesmen of Gor, page 50
       Weights and Volumes:
       gill = liquid volume
       "In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds, it had drawn
       perhaps a gill of liquid."
       Outlaw of Gor, page 34
       Stone = 4 Earth pounds
       "I have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of
       measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth
       pounds."
       Raiders of Gor, page 127
       tef, tefa, huda:
       tef = handful, fingers closed
       tefa = 6 tef
       huda = 5 tefa
       "A handful with the five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six
       such handfuls constitute a tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five
       such baskets constitute a huda."
       Tribesmen of Gor, page 46
       Weight = 10 Stone = 40 Earth pounds
       "A given tree, annually, yields between one and five Gorean
       weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some forty
       Earth pounds."
       Tribesmen of Gor, page 37
       "I have calculated this from the Weight, a Gorean unit of
       measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth
       pounds. A Weight is ten Stone."
       Raiders of Gor, page 127
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