ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The Full Scope of the Niburu Measurement System

The Selsians utilize their own system of measurement, independent of our many, many Earth systems. If you're planning to think like a Selsian, this is a rich treasure trove of vocab you won't wanna miss!

LENGTH

The main unit of length in Selsimicu is derived from anthropometric (or, i guess selsiometric?) quantities! We start of with a simple base unit:

This unit is then subdivided twice using senary magnitudes, like so:

DISTANCE

Oh, there's a unit of distance too? Yep! You don't walk with a measuring stick in hand, do you?
The basic unit of distance is:

This unit is then compounded heavily into the more common unit used for distance:

pwelontu might look big, but the circumference of Niburu is nearly 25 thousand pwelontu long! Really, unless the distance is very short, you're more likely to see pwelontu used over noka!

AREA & VOLUME

Selsians have units of area and volume too, which are pretty directly just squared and cubed versions of the length units! They're named "matlescom" and "cawlescom" respectively, which translate to "slab-measurer" and "water-measurer". They are:

matlescom um ke'u exists too, but at just 4.36 cm², around the area of a US quarter, it's not very practical to use.

Continuing on with area units, this practicality syphon only goes further, as cawlesom um ke'u is too small, at just 9ml, and cawlescom um tupfa is too big, at around 422L! In the end, only one remains:

MASS

Mass inherits the cufāl quantity and uses it as a basis of its own unit:

However, from this unit is coined another, smaller unit:

Like with noka and pwelontu (but backwards, I guess), you usually won't have to use the cufalum, since now kūltexi is the more popular unit! It's more granular, and it avoids potential confusion with the cufāl of volume. However, when that direct correlation is a benefit (i.e. for density), expect it.

WEIGHT

Weight also inherits the cufāl quantity, but first, it'll be important to define something:

Units of weight, like the two I'm about to show, are defined under THIS gravity, and not the lighter Earth gravity of 9.8m/s². Keep this in mind. Anyways:

The "reñsu" itself is a bar of dried potato* cultivated by Selsians and Jazrajoto alike, and used as a standardized trade item. It's made so its weighs almost exactly the same as a cufalum.
As this is a physical trade item of the Jazrajoto (who use a binary~hexadecimal system), its subdivisions aren't in sixes, but rather eights! This is also so it can be physically sliced just by halving repeatedly. Thus comes:

These different outlooks to unit divisions means that kūltexi and setok differ by quite a bit. Something that's around 4.5 kūltexi weighs 1 setok. Not too bad of a conversion rate, frankly!

TIME

Now THAT's a whole different story. There's enough material here for it to have its very own page! ...which it does! Check out Time! for all of that.

TEMPERATURE

Finally, we arrive at temperature! This unit comes from the invention of the thermometer by Selsian inventor Pitaza Micuzemta. Thus, the thermometer itself (leipitāza) and the temperature unit it utilizes are both named directly after them! This unit is:

OTHERS

This is all the basic units of the Selsian Measurement System, but others aren't lost! Derived units are more than possible. use terms found in the Eww Math Yucky lesson and the circumposition "sco" (where A sco B is A:B, as a ratio) and you're good to go!

and so on!