The Ah-il and Ah-ral:
are
measures used in the sale and use of cloth.
"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, pg 50
The Hort:
equivalent
to 1 1/4 inches
"The hort is approximately and inch and a quarter in length"
The Huda:
equivalent
to five Tefa
"A handful with five fingers closed, not open, is a tef. Six such handfuls constitute tefa, which is a tiny basket. Five such baskets constitute a huda"---Tribesmen of Gor, pg 46
The Gill:
used
to measure liquids.
"In a matter of perhaps two or three seconds, it had drawn perhaps a gill of liquid"--- Outlaw of Gor, pg 34
The GOREAN FOOT
"The Gorean foot, interestingly, is almost identical to the Earth foot. Both measures doubtless bear some distance relation to the length of the foot of an adult human male. 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 length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure." --- Raiders of Gor Pages 127-128
The
Pasang
"The pasang is a measure of distance on Gor, equivalent approximately to 0.7 of a mile"---Tarnsman of Gor, pg 58
The Stone: the basic unit
of weight, equivalent to 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, pg 127
The Tef: equivalent of a fistfull
The Tefa: equivalent to six Tefs
The Weight: equivalent
to 10 Stones
"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, p
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, pg 127
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Copper
tarsk bit
- Basic unit of currency. "Your master charges a tarsk bit for your use?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Open your mouth," I said. She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth. - Renegades |
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Copper
tarsk
- equivalent to 8 tarsk bits.
"One
of the guardsmen opened her mouth, not gently, and retrieved the coin,
a rather large one, a tarsk bit. Ten such coins make a copper tarsk.
A hundred copper tarsks make a silver tarsk." |
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Copper
tarn
- Equivalent to 2 and a half copper tarsks or 20 copper tarsk bits.
"Hup wildly thrust a small, stubby, knobby
hand into his pouch and hurled a coin, a copper tarn disk, to Kuurus
who caught it.".--- Assassin of Gor, p 13 |
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Silver
tarsk -
Equivalent to 40 copper tarns, 100 copper tarsks or 800 copper tarsk
bits.
"Dumbfounded
I reached in my pouch and handed her a coin, a silver Tarsk."---Assassin
of Gor, p 760
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Gold
tarn
- Equivalent to 10 silver tarks, 400 copper tarns, 1000 copper tarsk
or 8000 copper tarsk bits.
"A golden tarn disc was a small fortune. It would buy
one of the great birds themselves, or as many as five slave girls"
- Tarnsman of Gor, pages 193-194
"Although it is
not my policy to include Cabot's marginal notes, jottings, etc., which
are often informal, and apparently written at different times, in
the text of his accounts, I think it would not be amiss to hypothesize
certain approximate equivalencies here. To be sure, much seems to
depend on the city and the partiular weighs involved. 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 the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves
of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. There are apparently something
like one hundred copper tarks in a silver tarsk in many cities. Similarly,
something like ten silver tarks would apparently be equivalent, depending
on weights, etc., to old gold piece, say, a single "tarn."
Accordingly, on certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper
tarks; one hundred copper tarks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver
tarks to a gold piece, a single tarn. On this approach there would
be, literally, 8,000 tark bits in a single gold piece". |
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Double
weight gold tarn
- Equivalent to 2 gold tarns, 800 copper tarns, 2000 copper tarsk
or 16000 copper tarsk bits.
"Without speaking, the man took twenty pieces of gold,
tarn disks of Ar, of double weight, and gave them to Kuurus... |