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"The hort is approximately and inch and a quarter
in length."
Tribesmen of Gor page 49
"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."
Raiders of Gor, pages 127-128
"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
"The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor,
equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile."
Tarnsman of Gor, page 58
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"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
"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
"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
"In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds,
it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid."
Outlaw of Gor, page 34