Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 27 | 347 | An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. |
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 27 | 344 | To be sure, much seems to depend on the city and the particular weights involved. |
| 27 | 345 | For example, a "double tarn" is twice the weight of a "tarn". |
| 27 | 346 | It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half. |
| 27 | 347 | An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. |
| 27 | 348 | There are apparently something like one hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities. |
| 27 | 349 | Similarly, something like ten silver tarsks would apparently be equivalent, depending on weights, etc. |
| 27 | 350 | , to one gold piece, say, a single "tarn". |
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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 that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half.
An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces.
There are apparently something like one hundred copper tarsks in a silver tarsk in many cities.
Similarly, something like ten silver tarsks would apparently be equivalent, depending on weights, etc.
, to one gold piece, say, a single "tarn".
- (Magicians of Gor, Chapter 27)