Thing | How Many It Takes To Have A “Hundred” Of That Thing |
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Bowstaves, oars, and staves for hogsheads, as well as other certain types of pieces of wood | 120 |
Canvas and linen cloth | 120 |
Cod, Ling (which turns out to be cod), and Haberdine (which is also cod) | 124 |
Dried fish that’s somehow not just cod? | 160 |
Drinking glasses | 100, mercifully |
Eggs | 120 |
Fish, not excluding herring | 120 |
Onions, Garlic | 225 |
Pins, Nails | 120 |
Sheep or lambs, in Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire | 106 |
Reference: http://www.sizes.com/units/hundred.htm, from the Index to Units and Systems of Units page, which is just absorbing every minute of my time anymore because there’s things like a “stathmos” that’s equal to “about five parasangs”, which clears up things if you’re in Ancient Greece and taking units from the Persians when they aren’t looking.
Great, another website I foresee myself wasting hours and hours on learning new things
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Yeah, isn’t that the best? I could avoid all kinds of work for weeks just from this alone.
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