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Question
What types of weights and measures did the Indus people use?
Solution
The Indus people used sets of Cubical Stone weights. The basic unit was 16 (equal to modern 14 grams). The larger weights were multiples of 16 like 32, 48, 64, 128, and so on. The smaller ones were all fractions of 16.
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