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Lojban customary measuring units



What were measuring practices like in Lojbanistan before it went metric? There are few units, so it's hard to tell. Other customary systems have a lot more units.

Take length, for instance. The English system has point, line, barleycorn, inch, foot, ell, yard, fathom, rod, chain, furlong, mile, and league. The Lojban system has gucti and minli.

For weight the Indian system has tola, chittak, seer, and maund. The English system has grain, scruple, dram, ounce, pound, and ton (not counting Avoirdupois and Troy versions). The ancient Hebrew system had gerah, beqa, pim, sheqel, mina, and talent (kikkar). The Lojban system has only bunda.

I think I found one of the missing units: the fi'urvo is 1/4 dekpu. Anyone know what the others are, or how many gucti are in a minli, or square gucti in a kramu or cubic gucti in a dekpu?

Pierre