Score to Pieces (score to pc)
1 score equals 20 pieces exactly.
How to convert score to pieces
To convert score to pieces, multiply the number of score by 20. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply pieces by 0.05.
pieces = score × 20
Example: 10 score = 200 pieces.
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
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
Piece (pc)
A single item.
Piece is the plain unit for counting individual items, with no grouping implied. The word reached English from Old French piece, which came from Late Latin pecia or petia, meaning a fragment or a parcel of land. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, though Wiktionary notes a possible Gaulish source. It displaced the native Old English styce, which meant the same kind of thing.
Wiktionary defines it as a single item belonging to a class of similar items, and the word turns up in compounds such as by the piece, piece rate, and piecework. Every other counting unit in this family is just a fixed number of pieces: a pair is 2, a dozen 12, a gross 144, and a great gross 1,728. Treating the piece as the base is what lets any of them convert into any other by simple multiplication or division.
The piece is the reference unit for counting & quantity on this site.
Sources: Wiktionary: piece
Related conversions
- Pieces to score (reverse)
- Score to dozens
- Score to lakhs
- Score to millions
- Score to crores
- Score to billions (short scale)
- Score to pairs
- Score to hundred
- Score to gross
- Score to thousand
- Score to trillions (short scale)
- Dozens to pieces
- Lakhs to pieces
- Millions to pieces
- Crores to pieces
- Billions (short scale) to pieces
- Pairs to pieces
- Hundred to pieces
- Gross to pieces
- Thousand to pieces
- Trillions (short scale) to pieces
- Half dozens to pieces
- Quadrillions to pieces
See all counting & quantity units.