Half Dozen (½ doz)
Six items.
1 half dozen = 6 pieces (exactly).
About the half dozen
Half a dozen is six, and the phrase is best known from an idiom: six of one, half a dozen of the other. The saying works because the two quantities are identical, merely named differently, so it dismisses a choice between two options as pointless. The unit rests on the dozen, which came into English from Old French douzaine and Latin duodecim, and halving twelve leaves a number that still divides evenly by two and three.
In counting terms, half a dozen is 6 pieces or 3 pairs, and two of them make a dozen. A gross contains 24 half dozens, and a great gross contains 288. Because the larger bulk units are all built from twelves, half a dozen fits into every one of them with no remainder.
Sources: Wikipedia: Dozen
Half Dozen conversion chart
1 half dozen expressed in every other counting & quantity unit:
| Unit | 1 half dozen |
|---|---|
| Pieces | 6 |
| Dozens | 0.5 |
| Lakhs | 0.00006 |
| Millions | 0.000006 |
| Crores | 6×10⁻⁷ |
| Billions (short Scale) | 6×10⁻⁹ |
| Pairs | 3 |
| Hundred | 0.06 |
| Gross | 0.04166666667 |
| Thousand | 0.006 |
| Trillions (short Scale) | 6×10⁻¹² |
| Score | 0.3 |
| Quadrillions | 6×10⁻¹⁵ |
| Reams | 0.012 |
| Moles | 9.963234403×10⁻²⁴ |
| Baker's Dozens | 0.4615384615 |
| Small Gross | 0.05 |
| Great Gross | 0.003472222222 |
| Myriads | 0.0006 |
| Yi / Oku | 6×10⁻⁸ |
| Arab (Indian) | 6×10⁻⁹ |
| Kharab (Indian) | 6×10⁻¹¹ |
| Billions (long Scale) | 6×10⁻¹² |
| Quires | 0.24 |
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