Convert Twain to Gry - Free Calculator
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Twain to Gry Conversion Formula
To convert Twain to Gry, multiply by 17280.01.
To convert Gry back to Twain, divide by 17280.01 (or multiply by 5.787e-5).
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About Twain
The twain is an old word for the number two, derived from the Anglo-Saxon twegen. The American author Samuel Clemens (1835-1910), who had been a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi in his youth, took his literary name from a traditional riverboat phrase "mark twain", meaning "exactly two" fathoms of water. This was the minimum depth needed for the boats to operate safely without running aground.
About Gry
The gry is a proposed unit of distance in the English traditional system. The name was first used in June 1679 by the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) as a unit equal to 0.001 foot, 0.01 inch, or 0.1 line in a decimalized distance system. (Thomas Jefferson, who was very familiar with Lockes writings, later proposed a similar system in the U.S., but he called 0.001 foot a point rather than a gry.) In 1813, the gry was revived in another decimal measurement scheme in Britain. All these ideas failed, but the gry had some limited use in the nineteenth century as a unit equal to 0.1 line or 1/120 inch (0.211 667 millimeter). Long forgotten, the gry recently came back into the limelight in connection with a puzzle, circulating on the Internet, which asked for three English words ending in -gry. The word "gry" is from the ancient Greek, where it meant "a trifling amount".
Twain to Gry Conversion Table
| Twain | Gry | Gry | Twain |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 1728.00 | 0.1 | 5.787e-6 |
| 0.5 | 8640.00 | 0.5 | 2.894e-5 |
| 1 | 17280.01 | 1 | 5.787e-5 |
| 2 | 34560.02 | 2 | 1.157e-4 |
| 5 | 86400.04 | 5 | 2.894e-4 |
| 10 | 172800.08 | 10 | 5.787e-4 |
| 20 | 345600.15 | 20 | 1.157e-3 |
| 25 | 432000.19 | 25 | 1.447e-3 |
| 50 | 864000.39 | 50 | 2.894e-3 |
| 100 | 1728000.77 | 100 | 5.787e-3 |
| 250 | 4320001.94 | 250 | 0.014468 |
| 500 | 8640003.87 | 500 | 0.028935 |
| 1000 | 17280007.75 | 1000 | 0.057870 |
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