Great Gross (gt gr)
Twelve gross (1,728 items), the cube of twelve.
1 great gross = 1,728 pieces (exactly).
About the great gross
A great gross is twelve gross, which makes 1,728 items: a dozen dozen dozen, or 12 cubed. In duodecimal notation, where twelve is written 10, it is the number written 1,000. The number has a familiar cousin in measurement, since a cubic foot holds 1,728 cubic inches, because 12 inches times 12 times 12 is the same 12³.
Seen as a ladder, each step is a factor of 12: dozen 12, gross 144, great gross 1,728. A great gross equals 144 dozen, 288 half dozens, or 864 pairs. Terms this large are mainly used when buying or shipping goods in bulk, and the Dozenal Society of America, which advocates counting in twelves, promotes them as ready-made names for powers of twelve.
Sources: Wikipedia: Gross (unit); Wikipedia: Dozen
Great Gross conversion chart
1 great gross expressed in every other counting & quantity unit:
| Unit | 1 great gross |
|---|---|
| Pieces | 1,728 |
| Dozens | 144 |
| Lakhs | 0.01728 |
| Millions | 0.001728 |
| Crores | 0.0001728 |
| Billions (short Scale) | 0.000001728 |
| Pairs | 864 |
| Hundred | 17.28 |
| Gross | 12 |
| Thousand | 1.728 |
| Trillions (short Scale) | 1.728×10⁻⁹ |
| Score | 86.4 |
| Half Dozens | 288 |
| Quadrillions | 1.728×10⁻¹² |
| Reams | 3.456 |
| Moles | 2.869411508×10⁻²¹ |
| Baker's Dozens | 132.9230769 |
| Small Gross | 14.4 |
| Myriads | 0.1728 |
| Yi / Oku | 0.00001728 |
| Arab (Indian) | 0.000001728 |
| Kharab (Indian) | 1.728×10⁻⁸ |
| Billions (long Scale) | 1.728×10⁻⁹ |
| Quires | 69.12 |
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