Pairs to Score (pr to score)
1 pair equals 0.1 score exactly.
How to convert pairs to score
To convert pairs to score, multiply the number of pairs by 0.1. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply score by 10.
score = pairs × 0.1
Example: 10 pairs = 1 score.
Large-number names differ around the world: this site uses the short scale (billion = 10⁹) by default, and lists the long-scale billion separately.
About these units
Pair (pr)
Two items.
Pair comes from Old French paire, which grew out of Latin paria, the neuter plural of par, meaning equal. German Paar and Dutch paar are relatives of the same word. The core idea is two matching things taken together, as in a pair of shoes or gloves.
English also uses pair for single objects built from two connected parts. Scissors, spectacles, trousers, and jeans are plural-only nouns, so a counting word is needed: you say a pair of scissors or several pairs of jeans. That makes the unit slightly slippery. Six pairs of socks is 12 socks, but six pairs of scissors is only six objects. The word has other senses too, such as two people in a relationship or two cards of equal rank in poker, but as a quantity of loose items it is always two.
1 pair = 2 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wiktionary: pair
Score (score)
Twenty items. Seen in 'threescore years and ten' and 'four score and seven years ago'.
Score is a counting word for twenty, and it likely began as a notch. The Old Norse skor meant a notch or tally cut into a stick, and every twentieth mark was made larger, so the word came to mean twenty itself. English often pairs it with a number, as in threescore or fourscore. People also use scores loosely for a large, unspecified number.
Two famous passages keep the unit visible. In Psalm 90:10 of the King James Bible, the days of our years are threescore years and ten, which is 70, or fourscore, which is 80, if strength allows. And on November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln opened the Gettysburg Address with four score and seven years ago, meaning 87 years, which counts back to 1776 and the Declaration of Independence. A score of years is simply two decades.
1 score = 20 pieces (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Score (number); King James Bible, Psalm 90:10 (BibleHub); Wikipedia: Gettysburg Address
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- Pairs to gross
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