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LENGTHS
"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." Hort = 1 and 1/4 inches "The hort is approximately and inch and
a quarter in length."
Gorean Foot = 10 horts, approxiamtely 12 1/2 inches "The Gorean foot, is in my estimation, just
slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each
of its ten horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give
the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth
measure."
pasang = 0.7 miles "The pasang is a measure of distance on
Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile."
"In a matter of perhaps
two or three seconds, it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid."
"I have calculated this from the Weight, a
Gorean unit of measurement based on the Stone, which is about four Earth
pounds."
"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."
"A given tree, annually, yields between
one and five Gorean weights of fruit. A weight is some ten stone, or some
forty Earth pounds."
"For example, a 'double tarn' is twice
the weight of a 'tarn'. It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in
a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin
in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in
half. An analogy would be cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of Sa-Tarna
bread into eight pieces. There are approximately something like one hundred
copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities. Similarly, something like
ten silver tarsks would apparently be equivalent, depending on weights,
etc., to one gold piece, say, a single 'tarn'. Accordingly on this approach,
the equivalencies, very approximately and probably only for certain cities,
would be eight tarsk bits to the copper tarsk, one hundred copper tarsks
to a silver tarsk, and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn.
On this approach, there would be, literally, 8,000 tarsk bits in a single
gold piece."
"Hup wildly thrust a small, stubby, knobby hand into his pouch and
hurled a coin, a copper tarn disk, to Kuurus who caught it..."
"Five pieces of gold, in its way, incidentally, is also a fortune
on Gor. On could live, for example, in many cities, although not in contemporary
Ar, with its press on housing and shortages of food, for years on such
resources."
Now, in an earlier book, the author mentions silver tarn disks (as opposed to tarsks). These are valued a little differently apparently...(or it could be the differences in the cities, as cited in the first quote); but the quotes do seem contradictory "The tarsk is a silver coin, worth forty copper tarn disks."
"Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and
indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful.
An ordinary girl, of low caste, comely but untrained, might, depending
on the market, sell for as little as five or as many as thirty tarn disks."
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