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To be sure, much seems to depend on the city and the particular weights involved. - (Magicians of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #344)

One could live, for example, in many cities, though not in contemporary Ar, with its press on housing and shortages of food, for years on such resources". * * Although it is not my policy to include Cabot's marginal notes, jottings, etc. , which are often informal, and apparently written at different times, in the text of his accounts, I think it would not be amiss to hypothesize certain approximate equivalencies here. To be sure, much seems to depend on the city and the particular weights involved. For example, a "double tarn" is twice the weight of a "tarn". It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half. An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces. - (Magicians of Gor)