Grams to Seers (g to seer)

1 gram equals 0.001071691552 seers (rounded).

1 gram = 0.001071691552 seers

How to convert grams to seers

To convert grams to seers, multiply the number of grams by 0.001071691552. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply seers by 933.104304.

seers = grams × 0.001071691552

Example: 10 grams = 0.01071691552 seers.

About these units

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

Seer (seer)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

80 tolas, about 933 g. A traditional South Asian measure of grain and other goods.

Over large parts of Asia the seer served as the everyday grocer's weight, used for rice, wheat, ghee and similar goods, and in some places also as a measure of volume. Under the Mughals a seer was 30 dams and 40 seers made a maund. Each British presidency later kept its own version. Bengal reckoned the seer as 16 chitaks of 5 tolas, which is 80 tolas.

The government seer of British India comes to about 0.93310 kg, the figure used here, and the same value survives in Pakistan, Nepal and Aden. After independence India's Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1956 set the seer at 1.25 kg instead, and then metric weights replaced it. Other values are far apart: Afghanistan uses about 7.066 kg, Iran has a metric seer of 75 g and a sihr of 160 g, and in Sri Lanka the seer is a capacity of about 1.06 L. The word seer must therefore always be tied to a place and date.

1 seer = 0.933104304 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Seer (unit); Wikipedia: Tola (unit)

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