GOREAN MONEY        AND TIME
	MONEY Copper tarn disk = smallest unit of tarn disk currency Gold tarn disk = highest value on Gor Gold tarn disk of double weight = 100 silver tarn disks Copper Tarsk Bits = 1/10 to 1/4 of a copper tarsk Copper Tarsk = whole coin of least value Silver Tarsk = 100 copper tarsk/40 tarn disk Silver Tarn Disk = 10 Silver tarsk five gold peices, in it's way, incidentally, also a fortune on Gor. One could live, for example, in many cities, though not in contemporary Ar, with it's pressed on housing and shortages of food, for years on such resources .... --- Magicians on Gor, p468 Although it is not my policy to include Cabot's marginal notes, jottings, etc., which are often informal and appartently written at different times, in the text of his accounts, I think it would not be amiss to hypothisize certain approximate equivalencies here. To be sure, much seems to depend on the city and the particular weights 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 these are the result of cutting a circular cion in half, and then halves in half, and then each of these halves in half. An analogy with be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of Sa-Tarna bread into eight peices. There are apparently something like one hundred copper tarsk in a silver tarsk in many cities. Similarly, something like ten silver tarsk would apparently be equivalent, depending on the weights, ect., to old gold peice, say, a single "tarn." Accordingly, on certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits, to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsk to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsk to a gold peice, a single tarn. On this approach there would be, literally, 8,000 tarsk bits in a single gold piece ... ---Magicians of Gor, p468
		TIME ihn = gorean second ehn = Gorean minute; 80 ihn ahn = Gorean hour; 40 ehn 10th ahn =  noon 20th ahn = midnight Gorean Day = 20 ahn Gorean Week = 5 Gorean days Gorean Month = 4 Gorean weeks 5 day passage hand = one Gorean week between each Gorean month
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