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Bis (other spellings: Vis or Viss ) was a trading weight in the province of Pegu Burma and on the Coromandel coast of India .

Conversion into SI units

  • Pegu Province: 1 bis = 1536.9 grams
  • Coromandel Coast: 1 bis = 1369.189 grams
  • 2004: 1 viss = 1632 grams

See also

Burmese system of measurement

literature

  • Friedrich Albrecht Niemann: Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world . Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 21–22 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François Cardarelli: Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures: Their SI Equivalences and Origins, 2nd edition, Springer, 2004, ISBN 1-85233-682-X , "3.5.2.4.6.3 Old Burmese Units of Weight"