All numbers in this document are sapien unless otherwise noted. Where confusion may arise, sapien numbers are labeled as 100sap, symbian numbers are labeled as 100sym.
When a young symbian is born, it's shard is produced my it's mother. This new shard is extremely special, and is called a cádó or shardor. With no exception, all shardors look the same. They are all in the shape of an O, rounded off smoothly. In fact, the sym "or" is often crafted like a shardor, ie . What makes a shardor special, besides the obvious implications of a newborn child, is that they are all the same size, same density and same weight. For this reason, the Symbian measurement system is based mainly on the properties of the shardor, for it can be relied upon that the measurements will always be the same.
Every symbian begins it's life with a set amount of energy, kept within it's shardor. It is never different. This amount of energy is officially one ard, and is the base unit for energy on Symbia. Given that energy is the Symbian currency, an ard is also the base monetary unit. This measurement is not that of electricity, but instead of pure energy, such as that in E=mc².
A shardor always has the same diameter. This is officially one mek, the distance from one side to the other. This equals to roughly 3.8137cm.
Convert Rek Pek Mek Lek Kek Jek mm cm m km base Sapien Symbian into mm cm m km Rek Pek Mek Lek Kek Jek base Sapien Symbian 1 meksym is 3.8137 cmsap
Time cannot be based on the birth of a young Symbian or a shardor. Therefore, one met is precisely 1/15625th of a day. It is well known that the length of a day does change with time, so pure science and math is based by more exact means; it has been agreed on as a derivative of the amount of time it takes light to traverse one mek. This more exact measurement is known as a mēt (or meet), and the difference between one mēt and one met is negligible at best when used in day to day situations.
Convert Pet Met Let Seconds Minutes Hours base Sapien Symbian into Seconds Minutes Hours Pet Met Let base Sapien Symbian 1 metsym is 5.5296 secondssap
Sapiens use the ":" character to place between hours and minutes, Symbians use the "|" symbol.
Symbians do not have hours, minutes or seconds. Instead, they split their day into let, met and pet. There is 25 let in a day, 25 met in a let, and 25 pet in a met. On top of this, the Symbian base-5 number system must be remembered, so "25" is referenced as "100" on Symbia. So instead of a time like 6pm or 18:00, symbian times look like 22|01 or 01|12|13.
Symbians do not have a midday. Due to the way Symbian time is counted, the exact moment that half the day has past is 22|22|22. This time of day is given little attention and is not specifically named as in sapien culture. Midnight is at 00|00|00 such as on Earth, and is known as midnight, topnigh or "begginning". An example would be "we stayed up until the begginning, I was so tired the next day!"
One must be careful using sapien time terms on Symbia. The term "second" is only used along with "first" and "third". It's shorter version, sec, means nothing at all. The term "minute" simply means "small". The term hour is used, but only with a general meaning, such as "ages" in sapien terms. For example, "The holding time was hours".
For measurements of time longer than a day, Symbians use the week, the month and the year. The week is five days: Monday, Tueday, Wenday, Thursday and Friday [pronounced mûndæ, tyōdæ, wendæ, ŧúzdæ and frïdæ]. These five days cycle just the same as the seven days of the sapien week, and have done for untold hundreds of years, just like the sapien week. The months run the same tradition of January through December, with the main difference being the number of days for each month. All Symbian months consist of 30 days, excepting December which has either 35 or 36, depending on the need. A Symbian year is made of of the usual 365-366 days, and is heavily based on the winter solstice, or 'yule'.
The 1st of January is declared on the winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere, and the year begins on this date. Tradition holds that the first day of every year is a Monday, and by consequence, the first day of every month is also a Monday. At the end of a year, December runs until the winter solstice commences; the last day of December - and the year - is the day before the winter solstice. This is usually December 35th, and in rare cases December 36th. If the year does require an additional day, not unlike the sapien leap year, then this extra day is known as a Sunday.
Mass is based upon the mass of the shardor. One meg is the exact mass of a shardor, roughly 314.432sap grams.
Convert Peg Meg g kg base Sapien Symbian into Peg Meg g kg base Sapien Symbian 1 megsym is 314.432 gsap
Temperature on Symbia is based on water, just like on Earth. However, there are slight differences. On Earth, one degree Celsius is 1/100th of the temperature difference between the boiling point and melting point of water. On Symbia, one mel is 1/125th of the temperature difference between the boiling point and melting point of water.
Convert Mel °C base Sapien Symbian into Mel °C base Sapien Symbian 1 melsym is 0.8 °Csap
Often, very small or very large amounts of time, space, mass or temperature come into play. A year is roughly 24301101sym met, the distance between the Earth and the moon is 123444341330000sym mek, an elephant weighs 2210124sym meg, the surface of the sun is 210112sym mel.
To aid in this, Symbians have a system to show multiples of amounts of units. The premise is that the word that describes a unit, for example meg, is made of three parts. The first part, ie 'm', stands for the multiple. The middle part is almost always 'e', and is definitive filler to ease pronunciation. The last part, ie 'g', stands for the type of unit. The word meg has 'm' for no multiple, 'e' for filler, and 'g' to stand for mass.
Although confusing to sapiens at first, the system is simple and consistent.
Many other systems of measurement can be derived from the units above. By combining two different units, or by using multiples of the same units, the units above can be expanded to cover almost anything.
Area is measured by square mek, just as it is often measured by square metres. Following the Symbian naming guide lines, mek² is written and verbalised as mak, the filler 'e' is moved on to the next full vowel, which is 'a'. One mak is 0.00145 m² or 14.5 cm².
Whether it's measuring cola, swimming pool capacities or the volume of a truck, Symbians use cubic mek, just like the cubic metre. Again, following procedure, mek³ is written and verbalised as mok, the filler 'e' moved through two full vowels. One mok is 0.00005546 m³, or 55.4676 cm³ or 55.4676 mL.
Speed is distance covered by time. Symbians measure speed in meket. One meket is the speed of one mek travelled in one met or mek/met, ie if a car is travelling at a speed of one mek every met, then it is travelling at one meket, or approximately 0.0248 km/h.
Convert Peket Meket m/s km/h base Sapien Symbian into Peket Meket m/s km/h base Sapien Symbian 1 meketsym is 0.024828776041666667 km/hsap
Acceleration is change of speed over time. Symbians measure acceleration in mekat. One mekat is the increase of speed by one meket every met, or 1 mek/met². If a car gets faster by one meket every met, then it has an acceleration of 1 mekat.
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