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Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144 Twelve dozen Score: 20 Presumably from the practice, in counting sheep or large herds of cattle, of counting orally from one to twenty, and making a score or notch on a stick, before proceeding to count the next twenty.
A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen, 12 2). [1] [2] A great gross refers to a group of 1,728 items (a dozen gross or a cubic dozen, 12 3). [1] [2] A small gross [3] or a great hundred [4] refers to a group of 120 items (ten dozen, 10×12). The term can be abbreviated gr. or gro., and dates from the early 15th ...
The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.
£sd (occasionally written Lsd, spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence" or pronounced / ɛ l. ɛ s ˈ d iː / ell-ess-DEE), is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe.
The basket was round. Its inside measurements were: Base diameter 12 inches, top diameter 18 inches, height 12 inches. A basket filled level to the top was a bushel. A basket filled to the top but overfilled to a height where it overflowed was considered to be a bushel and a peck, a generous measure (a similar concept to a baker's dozen).
Krispy Kreme customers have five days to take advantage of the $2 dozen deal. The offer is valid between Aug. 29 and Sept. 2, and there are three ways to score the discount: In-shop
An original glazed dozen is typically $19.99. Hot, fresh doughnuts at Krispy Kreme before they are glazed. Other dozen boxes including a box of classic assorted, filled, or specialty doughnuts can ...
The resulting gold-silver ratio of 1:12.55 was much higher than the ratio of 1:11 prevailing in the Continent, draining England of its silver coinage and requiring a more permanent remedy in 1351 in the form of Pennies reduced further to 18 gr (1.2 g; 0.038 ozt) of sterling silver (or 18 @ 0.925 fine = 15.73 gr pure silver) and