One day while existing in the universe a question hit me like an overly large purple scallop freshly warmed and covered in parsley. What is a jiffy?? Well I found out and that got me thinking. What are some other unused measurements. So I found some.
Gou (180 milliliters — better known as a rice cup for an electric cooker)
pack year (cigarette consumption based on one pack a day for a year),
nibble (typically four bits of binary code, or half a byte)
score (20 of something)
hand (4 inches of horse height),
twip (1/20 of a typesetting point)
thrave (24 sheaves of wheat)
shake (10 nanoseconds),
mickey (ratio of computer mouse movement to onscreen cursor movement)
jansky (strength of radio signals from space),
butt (two hogsheads, or about 126 gallons, of booze),
Chain (66 feet)
Quark (smallest possible measurement for anything)
Homer (220 liters)
perch (24.75ft^3)
Gill (1/2 cup liquid)
And MY personal favorite (Ellipses)...
smoot (a measure of length developed by some MIT students, equal to 5 feet, 7 inches — the height of one Oliver R. Smoot).
Whodathunkit??
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