query: monetary unit of botswana equal to one hundredth of a pula

pos: Botswana pula Botswana pula The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code "BWP" and is subdivided into 100 "thebe". "Pula" literally means "rain" in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana — home to much of the Kalahari Desert — and therefore valuable and a blessing. The word also serves as the national motto of the country. A sub-unit of the currency is known as "thebe", or "shield", and represents defence. The names were picked with the help of the public. The pula was introduced in 1976, replacing the South African rand at par. Despite a

pos: Botswana pula Botswana pula The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code "BWP" and is subdivided into 100 "thebe". "Pula" literally means "rain" in Setswana, because rain is very scarce in Botswana — home to much of the Kalahari Desert — and therefore valuable and a blessing. The word also serves as the national motto of the country. A sub-unit of the currency is known as "thebe", or "shield", and represents defence. The names were picked with the help of the public. The pula was introduced in 1976, replacing the South African rand at par. Despite a

pos: Botswana pula along with the Zimbabwean Bond Coins. The word "Pula" also serves as part of the national motto of the Kingdom of Lesotho. As in Botswana, it means "rain" in the Sotho language and is considered a synonym for blessing. The Botswana Pula became widely known internationally through numerous references in the "No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall Smith, making it possible for readers worldwide to get an idea of the Pula's purchasing power. Botswana pula The pula is the currency of Botswana. It has the ISO 4217 code "BWP" and is subdivided into 100 "thebe". "Pula" literally means

pos: Botswana pula 12% devaluation in May 2005, the pula remains one of the strongest currencies in Africa. In 1976, coins were introduced in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 25 and 50 thebe and 1 pula. The 1 thebe was struck in aluminium, with the 5 thebe in bronze and the others in cupro-nickel. These coins were round except for the scalloped 1 pula. Bronze, dodecagonal 2 thebe coins were introduced in 1981 and discontinued after 1985. In 1991, bronze-plated steel replaced bronze in the 5 thebe, nickel-plated steel replaced cupro-nickel in the 10, 25 and 50 thebe and the 1 pula changed

pos: Botswana pula to a smaller, nickel-brass, equilateral-curve seven-sided coin. A similarly shaped, nickel-brass 2 pula was introduced in 1994. In 2004, the composition was changed to brass-plated steel and the size was slightly reduced. In 1998, following the withdrawal of the 1 and 2 thebe, smaller 5, 10, 25 and 50 thebe coins were introduced, with the 5 and 25 thebe coins being seven-sided and the 10 and 50 thebe coins remaining round. A bimetallic 5 pula depicting a mopane caterpillar and a branch of the mopane tree it feeds on was introduced in 2000 composed of a cupronickel center in a

neg: Common Monetary Area of change. Foreign exchange regulations and monetary policy throughout the CMA continue to reflect the influence of the South African Reserve Bank. Of the SACU members, only Botswana is currently out of the CMA, having replaced the rand with the pula in 1976. Botswana wanted to implement its own monetary policy and to adjust the exchange rate in case of any future problem in the economy that will affect their economy as well. The CMA, enacted in July 1986, originated from the Rand Monetary Area (RMA), which was established in December 1974; the signatories of the latter were South Africa,

neg: Botswana pula series of notes was introduced on 23 August 2009 and contains for the first time, a 200-pula banknote. In response to the concern of the poor quality of the paper of the 10 pula banknote, the Bank of Botswana revealed a 10 pula banknote in polymer in November 2017 and was issued to the public on February 1, 2018. Due to hyperinflation in Zimbabwe in 2006 to 2008, the government has allowed circulation of foreign currency since September 2008. Local currency became obsolete on April 12, 2009. Several currencies, including the South African rand and Botswana pula circulate in Zimbabwe,

neg: Céntimo is one-hundredth of the following basic monetary units: Céntimo The céntimo (in Spanish-speaking countries) or cêntimo (in Portuguese-speaking countries) was a currency unit of Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. The word derived from the Latin meaning "hundredth part". The main Spanish currency, before the euro, was the peseta which was divided into 100 céntimos. In Portugal it was the real and later the escudo, until it was also replaced by the euro. In the European community "cent" is the official name for one hundredth of a euro. However, both "céntimo" (in Spanish) and "cêntimo" (in Portuguese) are commonly used

neg: Botswana pula ring made of aluminium-nickel-bronze. A new series of coins was introduced in 2013. On August 23, 1976, the Bank of Botswana introduced notes in denominations of 1, 2, 5, and 10 pula; a 20-pula note followed on February 16, 1978. The 1 and 2 pula notes were replaced by coins in 1991 and 1994, whilst the first 50 and 100 pula notes were introduced on May 29, 1990 and August 23, 1993, respectively. The 5 pula note was replaced by a coin in 2000. The original 1, 2 and 5 pula banknotes were demonetized on 1 July 2011. The current

neg: Botswana–China relations Botswana–China relations Botswana - People's Republic of China relations refers to the current and historical relationship between the Botswana and the People's Republic of China. Relations were first established on 6 January 1975. In 2010, upon the 35th anniversary of relations being formalized, the relationship between the two states was considered "strong" and "rapidly growing" by then Chinese ambassador to Botswana, Liu Huanxing. Botswana follows the One China Policy which means Botswana does not have relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan). Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China, the Botswana government donated one million pula. Beginning in the 1980s,

neg: Economy of Botswana direct investment can be repatriated without restriction from Botswana. The Botswana Government eliminated all exchange controls in 1999. The Central Bank devalued the Pula by 7.5% in February 2004 in a bid to maintain export competitiveness against the real appreciation of the Pula. There was a further 12% devaluation in May 2005 and the policy of a "Crawling peg" was adopted. The recently established Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority (NBFIRA) is responsible for the oversight of all non-banking financial services entities in the country. As of 2005, about 54 percent of Botswana’s population had access to formal or informal financial

neg: Picometre Picometre The picometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: pm) or picometer (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to , or one trillionth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length. The picometre is one thousandth of a nanometre, one millionth of a micrometre (also known as a micron), and used to be called micromicron, stigma, or bicron. The symbol µµ was once used for it. It is also one hundredth of an Ångström, an internationally recognised (but non-SI) unit of length. The

neg: Stelo its level of development each country could calculate in its national currency an average family's monthly expenditure. One could then arbitrarily assign the value of 1,000 monetary units to this average monthly expenditure. Thus by definition, the loss to a family in any country of, say, 10 units would be absolutely equal to 10 "international monetary units." By careful calculation, therefore, the conversion rate between the international monetary unit and the national currency could be adjusted as necessary according to the inflation rate in any particular country. By basing transactions among different countries on the international monetary unit, the national

neg: History of the metric system new, practical realisation would ultimately become the base unit of mass. On 7 April 1795, the "gramme", upon which the kilogram is based, was decreed to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube of one hundredth of a metre, and at the temperature of the melting ice". Although the definition of the "kilogramme" specified water at 0 °C – a highly stable temperature point – it was replaced with the temperature at which water reaches maximum density, measured at the time as 4 °C. They concluded that one cubic decimetre of

neg: Coat of arms of Botswana view that ivory tusk represents wild life preservation. Botswana has one of the highest elephant populations in Africa. Coat of arms of Botswana The coat of arms of Botswana was adopted on 25 January 1966. The centre shield is supported by two zebras. The shape of the shield is that of traditional shields found in Southern Africa. On the top portion of the shield are three cogwheels that represent industry. The three waves symbolize water, and reminds the viewer of the motto of the nation: "pula", which means simply "rain", but also good luck, and is the name of the

neg: Botswana of Botswana serves as a central bank. The country's currency is the Botswana pula. Botswana's competitive banking system is one of Africa's most advanced. Generally adhering to global standards in the transparency of financial policies and banking supervision, the financial sector provides ample access to credit for entrepreneurs. The Capital Bank opened in 2008. , there are a dozen licensed banks in the country. The government is involved in banking through state-owned financial institutions and a special financial incentives program that is aimed at increasing Botswana's status as a financial centre. Credit is allocated on market terms, although the government

neg: Zimbabwean dollar denominations up to a $100 trillion banknote issued. The final redenomination produced the "fourth dollar" (ZWL), which was worth 10 ZWD (first dollars). Use of the Zimbabwean dollar as an official currency was effectively abandoned on 12 April 2009. It was demonetised in 2015, with outstanding accounts able to be reimbursed until April 30, 2016. In place of the Zimbabwean dollar, currencies including the South African rand, Botswana pula, pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan, and the United States dollar are now regularly used. The Zimbabwean dollar's predecessor, the Rhodesian dollar, was essentially equal to

neg: United States dollar States dollar as the "unit of currency" of the United States. Unlike the Spanish milled dollar, the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of "mill" or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ₥), "cent" or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ¢), "dime" or one-tenth of a dollar, and "eagle" or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a "union", but no union coins were ever

neg: Gram Gram The gram (alternative spelling: gramme; SI unit symbol: g) (Latin "", from Greek , "grámma") is a metric system unit of mass. Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre [1 cm], and at the temperature of melting ice" (later at 4 °C, the temperature of maximum density of water). However, in a reversal of reference and defined units, a gram is now defined as one thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or 1×10 kg, which itself is "now defined" by the

neg: Centimetre Centimetre A centimetre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; symbol cm) or centimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, "centi" being the SI prefix for a factor of . The centimetre was the base unit of length in the now deprecated centimetre–gram–second (CGS) system of units. Though for many physical quantities, SI prefixes for factors of 10—like "milli-" and "kilo-"—are often preferred by technicians, the centimetre remains a practical unit of length for many everyday measurements. A centimetre is approximately the width

neg: Papal mint (écu) that remained the monetary unit of the Pontifical States. At the same time, there appeared the zecchino. The ancient papal florin was equal to 2 scudi and 11 baiocchi (1 baiocco = 0.01 scudi); one ducat was equal to one scudo and 9 baiocchi. The scudo also underwent fluctuations, in the market and in its weight: the so-called scudo delle stampe (1595) was worth 184·2 baiocchi, that is, a little less than 2 scudi. Benedict XIII re-established the good quality of the alloy, but under Pius VI it again deteriorated. In 1835 Gregory XVI regulated the monetary system of

neg: Botswana–China relations Botswana. Of that total, only $52 million falls under the OECD-DAC criteria for Official Development Assistance. The Exim Bank of China provided the rest of the financing to Botswana to fund the Lethlhakeng-Kang road project. China has extended a loan to fund the construction of the Mosetse-Kazungula railway project, which will connecto Zambia via the Kazungula Bridge. In September 2018, China cancelled a debt of 80 million pula owed by Botswana. In order to facilitate economic expansion, PR China has financed a number of building projects across Botswana. These projects numbered 28 in January 2010 and included railway and roads,

neg: Canadian pound of Canada adopted a new system based on the Halifax rating. The new Canadian pound was equal to 4 U.S. dollars (92.88 grains gold), making one pound sterling equal to £1 4s 4d Canadian. Thus, the new Canadian pound was worth 16s 5.3d sterling. The earliest Canadian postage stamps were denominated in this Halifax unit. The 1850s was a decade of wrangling over whether to adopt a sterling monetary system or a decimal monetary system based on the US dollar. The local population, for reasons of practicality in relation to the increasing trade with the neighbouring United States, had an

neg: 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census The 2011 Botswana Population and Housing Census was the latest national census of Botswana. The enumeration was managed by the Central Statistics Office and took place over ten days starting on 22 August 2011. The census counted a total population of 2,024,787, a 20.5% increase from the 2001 Census. The total budget for the 2011 Census was 243,575,993 pula (US$35.3 million as of August 2011) with the Botswana government funding all the costs. Over P100,000,000 was planned to pay for personnel. Bushmen living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve boycotted the census in response

neg: Botswana Police College Botswana Police College The Botswana Police College is located in Otse in the South East District. An ultra-modern new college campus for meeting the training needs of the Botswana Police Service was designed by FMA Architects Ltd (Canadian Architect - Samuel Oboh - was a resident Architect on this project), constructed by Stocks Building Africa and completed in 2000 at a cost of 230 million Pula. The police college shares its campus with the International Law Enforcement Academies' Gaborone academy, known as ILEA Gaborone. It is here where law enforcement officers from more than 25 countries across Africa come to

neg: Botswana Telecommunications Corporation almost 200 villages around the country. Currently, they have signed another contract for the provision of telecommunications to a further sixty-two villages in the south-western part of Botswana. These projects were a partnership between the Government of Botswana and BTC Group where the Government funds the capital cost, whilst maintaining the infrastructure on an ongoing basis. The cost of the projects is in excess of Pula 240 million. Contribution to HIV/AIDS related activities BTC Group is a founding member of the Botswana Parastatal Aids Forum and also has an active Aids awareness programme in the workplace. The Group commemorated the

neg: Savart Savart The savart is a unit of measurement for musical pitch intervals (). One savart is equal to one thousandth of a decade (10/1: 3,986.313714 cents): 3.9863 cents. Musically, in just intonation, the interval of a decade is precisely a just major twenty-fourth, or, in other words, three octaves and a just major third. Today the savart has largely been replaced by the cent and the millioctave. The savart is practically the same as the earlier heptameride (eptameride), one seventh of a meride. One tenth of an heptameride is a decameride and a hundredth of an heptameride (thousandth of a

neg: Air Botswana Freighters. In 1983 a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules was leased and Air Botswana Cargo was formed to operate cargo charters, and when South African Airways ended services to Lesotho and Swaziland, a second F27 was acquired and services to Maseru and Manzini were inaugurated. A sixteen-seat Dornier Do 228-200 was leased in December 1984 from Kalahari Air Service, with the latter flying and maintaining the aircraft for Air Botswana. The 57 million pula Sir Seretse Khama International Airport opened on 10 December 1984, seeing Air Botswana operating from the airport. By the end of 1986, the route network included Gaborone, Francistown,

neg: Flag of Botswana is a precious resource in Botswana, which relies on agriculture and suffers from frequent droughts due to the dry and arid climate of the Kalahari Desert. The blue also alludes to the motto featured on the coat of arms of Botswana—"Pula", which means "Let there be rain" in Setswana—as well as life, which is sustained by water. The black band with the white frame has two meanings. Firstly, they symbolize the harmony and cooperation between the people of different races who live in Botswana, as well as the racial diversity of the country. Furthermore, they represent the stripes of the

neg: Heptagon by Schläfli symbols {7/2}, and {7/3}, with the divisor being the interval of connection. <br>Blue, {7/2} and green {7/3} star heptagons inside a red heptagon. The United Kingdom currently (2011) has two heptagonal coins, the 50p and 20p pieces, and the Barbados Dollar is also heptagonal. The 20-eurocent coin has cavities placed similarly. Strictly, the shape of the coins is a Reuleaux heptagon, a curvilinear heptagon to make them curves of constant width: the sides are curved outwards so that the coin will roll smoothly in vending machines. Botswana pula coins in the denominations of 2 Pula, 1 Pula, 50

neg: Botswana Police College learn the latest in law enforcement techniques. Botswana Police College The Botswana Police College is located in Otse in the South East District. An ultra-modern new college campus for meeting the training needs of the Botswana Police Service was designed by FMA Architects Ltd (Canadian Architect - Samuel Oboh - was a resident Architect on this project), constructed by Stocks Building Africa and completed in 2000 at a cost of 230 million Pula. The police college shares its campus with the International Law Enforcement Academies' Gaborone academy, known as ILEA Gaborone. It is here where law enforcement officers from more

neg: Gaborone Canada. Phakalane, an affluent suburb, lies about 25 km north of the city limits. In the centre of the city lies the Mall, the financial and tourism centre of Gaborone. The Mall houses numerous banks and shopping centres. At the eastern end of the Mall, one can find the Civic Centre along with the Pula Arch that commemorates Botswana's independence. The Botswana Stock Exchange, National Museum and Art Gallery, and the main campus of the University of Botswana also lie near the Mall. To the west of the Mall is the Government Enclave. This area contains the governmental buildings such

neg: Coat of arms of Botswana Coat of arms of Botswana The coat of arms of Botswana was adopted on 25 January 1966. The centre shield is supported by two zebras. The shape of the shield is that of traditional shields found in Southern Africa. On the top portion of the shield are three cogwheels that represent industry. The three waves symbolize water, and reminds the viewer of the motto of the nation: "pula", which means simply "rain", but also good luck, and is the name of the nation's currency. This motto also highlights the importance of water to Botswana. The motto is found at the

neg: Diamond (gemstone) the last two decades, a number of for-profit gemological grading laboratories have also been established, many of them also based in Antwerp or New York. These entities serve to provide similar services as the non-profit associations above, but in a less expensive and more timely fashion. They produce certificates that are similar to those of the GIA. The "carat weight" measures the mass of a diamond. One carat is defined as 200 milligrams (about 0.007 ounces avoirdupois). The "point" unit—equal to one one-hundredth of a carat (0.01 carat, or 2 mg)—is commonly used for diamonds of less than one carat.

neg: Maru-a-Pula School aerobics, yoga, squash, golf and dance. Forms of dance include Hip Hop, Korean Pop, ballroom and Bollywood (Indian). Enrichment activities include a marimba band, an a cappella singing group, Setswana choir and a range of clubs. These include clubs for wildlife, debating, chess, poetry, investment, bridge, clay, film, decoupage, sewing, cookery, conversational Chinese and card games. Students can receive individual tuition in various musical instruments. Maru-a-Pula School Maru-a-Pula School is a co-educational, independent day and boarding secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana. It was founded in 1972. The school prepares students for the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education (IGCSE), Advanced

neg: Maru-a-Pula School Maru-a-Pula School Maru-a-Pula School is a co-educational, independent day and boarding secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana. It was founded in 1972. The school prepares students for the Cambridge International General Certificate of Education (IGCSE), Advanced Subsidiary (AS) and Advanced (A) Level examinations. 2018 enrollment is a record 780 students : The school has an afternoon programme known as 'SPE': S for service, P for physical and E for enrichment activities. Service engages students in over 20 community projects. The physical programme includes athletics, basketball, cricket, football, netball, rugby, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball as well as non-competitive activities such as

neg: Level (logarithmic quantity) if the reference value of the power quantity, "P", is in the same proportion to "F", the levels "L" and "L" are equal. The octave is a unit of level (specifically "frequency level", for ) though that concept is seldom seen outside of the ANSI standard that defines it. A semitone is one twelfth of an octave. A cent is one hundredth of a semitone. Level (logarithmic quantity) In the International System of Quantities, the level of a quantity is the logarithm of the ratio of the value of that quantity to a reference value of the same quantity. Examples

neg: Seretse Khama two more, heavily subsidizing veterinary services, vaccines, and cattle fence construction. It set up the Botswana Meat Commission as the sole seller of beef in the country, setting prices and selling beef to regional and international markets. With Khama's direct intervention, it negotiated a lucrative trade deal with the European Economic Community, gaining prices far above world levels. The Botswana Development Corporation was established in 1970 to attract foreign investment in crop agriculture, tourism, and secondary industries. In 1976, the Botswana pula was introduced, replacing the South African rand as the national currency. Due to Khama's dedication to development, very

neg: Prostitution in Botswana in Gaborone, Francistown and Kasane, out of a total of about 4,000 prostitutes in those three areas. Although homosexuality is stigmatised in the country, male prostitution is on the increase in Botswana, especially in Gaborone, Palapye, Francistown, Maun, Kasane and Kazungula. The following items of the Penal Code of Botswana criminalises, or is used to criminalise, prostitution and related activities: Section 57 of the 2009 Children’s Act makes it a crime to induce, coerce or encourage a child to engage in prostitution, subject to two to five years imprisonment and/or a fine of 50,000 pula ($4,685). The 2014 Anti-Human Trafficking

neg: Gaborone Marathon age and gender: open, juniors, veterans, and masters. This race is open to anyone older than 12. The male and female winner of the marathon receives 25,000 Botswana pula (US$3,325 at the time of the 2012 race), second place receives P15,000, third receives P10,000, and fourth receives P5,000. The fastest male and female Botswana citizen will receive P10,000 from BIHL Insurance Company. The top three runners, Felix Kipkoror, Benjamin Kipro Serem, and Jobo Khatoane, in the 2012 race qualified for the 2012 Olympic Marathon. Gaborone Marathon The Diacore Gaborone Marathon is a marathon in Gaborone, Botswana. The marathon is governed

neg: Wage unit Wage unit The wage unit is a unit of measurement for monetary quantities introduced by Keynes in his 1936 book "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" ("General Theory"). A value expressed in wage units is equal to its price in money units divided by the wage (in money units) of a man-hour of labour. The classical economists believed that the value of a product could be identified with the number of man-hours of labour which went into its production. This value was inherently real. Economic values can always be expressed in monetary terms except in a barter economy.

neg: Botswana Premier League in recent years. Recently Namibian stars like Jerome Luis and Benson Shilongo arrived in Botswana in search of the Pula. After terminating their television deal with a South African company RP Productions, the league is now negotiating a long term deal with Supersport International. In early 2013, the pay TV shown five BPL games on a testing basis. During the league, from August to May, each club plays each of the other teams twice; once at home and once away, totaling 30 games for each team by the end of the season. Therefore, in Botswana football a true round-robin format

neg: Botswana the world to an upper middle-income country. Although Botswana was resource-abundant, a good institutional framework allowed the country to reinvest resource-income in order to generate stable future income. By one estimate, it has the fourth highest gross national income at purchasing power parity in Africa, giving it a standard of living around that of Mexico. The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Botswana is responsible for promoting business development throughout the country. According to the International Monetary Fund, economic growth averaged over 9% per year from 1966 to 1999. Botswana has a high level of economic freedom compared to other

neg: Akçe Akçe The akçe () () was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, a silver coin. Three "akçe"s were equal to one "para". One-hundred and twenty "akçe"s equalled one "kuruş". Later after 1687 the "kuruş" became the main unit of account, replacing the "akçe". In 1843, the silver "kuruş" was joined by the gold lira in a bimetallic system. Its weight fluctuated, one source estimates it is between 1.15 and 1.18 grams. The name "akçe" originally referred to a silver coin but later the meaning changed and it became a synonym for money. The mint in Novo Brdo, a

neg: Koban (coin) Koban (coin) The was a Japanese oval gold coin in Edo period feudal Japan, equal to one "ryō", another early Japanese monetary unit. It was a central part of Tokugawa coinage. The "Keichō" era "koban", a gold piece, contained about one ryō of gold, so that koban carried a face value of one ryō. However, successive mintings of the koban had varying (usually diminishing) amounts of gold. As a result, the ryō as a unit of weight of gold and the ryō as the face value of the koban were no longer synonymous. The Japanese economy before the mid-19th century

neg: Solidus (coin) ("denier"), the solidus was used as a unit of account equal to 12 "deniers". Variations on the word "solidus" in the local language gave rise to a number of currency units: In the French language, which evolved directly from common or vulgar Latin over the centuries, "solidus" changed to "soldus", then "solt", then "sol" and finally "sou". No gold "solidi" were minted after the Carolingians adopted the silver standard; thenceforward the "solidus" or "sol" was a paper accounting unit equivalent to one-twentieth of a pound ("librum" or "livre") of silver and divided into 12 "denarii" or "deniers". The monetary unit

neg: Thousandth of an inch at different firms who did not have any contact with (or even awareness of) each other—yet still knowing with certainty that their products would have the desired fit. Thousandth of an inch A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in an inch-based system of units. Equal to of an inch, it is normally referred to as a thou , a thousandth, or (particularly in the United States) a mil. The plural of "thou" is also "thou" (thus one hundredth of an inch is "10 thou"), while the plural of "mil" is "mils" (thus "10 mils"). The

neg: Thousandth of an inch Thousandth of an inch A thousandth of an inch is a derived unit of length in an inch-based system of units. Equal to of an inch, it is normally referred to as a thou , a thousandth, or (particularly in the United States) a mil. The plural of "thou" is also "thou" (thus one hundredth of an inch is "10 thou"), while the plural of "mil" is "mils" (thus "10 mils"). The words are shortened forms of the English and Latin words for "thousand" ("mille"). The US customary "mil" can be confused with the millimetre, which is the standard meaning

neg: Qapik Qapik Qapik (from ) is a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to 1/100 of the Azerbaijani manat. The 2006 currency denomination of the Azerbaijani manat introduced 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 qəpik into circulation. The 1, 3 and 5 qəpik are made of copper-covered steel. The 10 and 20 qəpik are of brass-covered steel, the 50 qəpik are bicolor. The word "qəpik" comes from the Russian word "kopek" which means spear, and which was a currency since the time of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century and is now the monetary unit of the Russian ruble, Ukrainian

neg: Freedom of religion in Botswana fine of up to $166 (Pula 1,000) and/or up to 7 years in prison. Any member of an unregistered society is liable to penalties including fines up to $83 (Pula 500) and/or up to three years in prison. Sixty-nine religious groups registered from July 2006 to May 2007; however, during this same period 256 religious groups began the process of registration but had their applications terminated. The applications were automatically terminated after the failure to submit required forms, fees, or constitution within 90 days, as the law mandates. No religious organization was deregistered during the reporting period. Religious education is

neg: Naomi Ruele Naomi Ruele Naomi Ruele (born 13 January 1997) is a Botswana swimmer. She competed in the women's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics where she ranked at #47 with a time of 26.23 seconds. She also swims for Florida International University, and has been named the 2015/16 Conference USA swimmer of the year. Naomi Ruele was born on 13 January 1997 in Gaborone, Botswana. She attended the Maru a Pula School. She was the first Motswana swimmer to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games, competing at Nanjing, China, in 2014 in the girls' 50 metre backstroke and

neg: Dookudu became the first Telugu film to be released in Botswana. The Telugu Association of Botswana screened it in Village Cinema at 10:30 AM on 9 October 2011 with each ticket costing 40 pula. Apart from them, the film released in countries like Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia and United Kingdom while the producers received calls from Nairobi for distribution rights. The first-look poster featuring Mahesh Babu with a teaser was unveiled on 31 May 2011 on the eve of the birthday of Mahesh's father, actor Krishna. The second teaser was unveiled on 9 August 2011 on the eve of Mahesh's birthday, and

neg: Cologne mark "Gran", with the Gran equal to 0.812 grams. Cologne mark The Cologne Mark was a unit of weight equivalent to 233.856 grams (about 3,609 grains). It came to be used as the base unit for a number of currency standards, including the Lübeck monetary system, which was important in northern Europe in the late Middle Ages, and the coinage systems of the Holy Roman Empire, most significantly the conventionsthaler, which was defined as one tenth of a Cologne Mark. The Mark was defined as half a "Pfund" (pound) with 16 "Unze" (ounces) to the Pfund. The Unze was subdivided into

neg: Gaborone between October and April. There are on average forty days of thunderstorms per year, most of them happening during the summer months, and four days of fog, usually happening during the winter months. Gaborone has been affected by three floods based on records going back to 1995, one in 2000, one in 2001 that caused an estimated 5,000,000 Botswana pula worth of damage, and one in 2006. The highest humidity occurs in June at 90% while the lowest humidity is in September at 28%. Solar radiation levels range from 14.6 MJ/m in June to 26.2 MJ/m in December. It is

neg: Currency of Colombia the "real" by renaming it the "décimo". It changed the name "granadino" to "peso" and made it the monetary unit, worth 10 reales, older pesos .666 fine becoming 8-décimo pieces. Debts contracted prior to passage of this law were to be reduced 20% when paid with pesos rated 10 décimos (not 8). The cóndor was made equal to 10 pesos in silver. The old décimo and medio décimo de real became the centavo and medio centavo. The 1846 law had upset people by replacing the peso with the real as the monetary unit; the 1853 law altered the notion of

neg: The Kalahari Typing School for Men with favorable results. Mr Molefelo approaches Mma Ramotswe for a delicate matter. He is a prosperous civil engineer in Lobatse who is also the proprietor of a hotel and landowner with an ostrich ranch. As a young student at the Botswana Technical College in Gaborone, he had a girlfriend whom he had made pregnant. In order to pay for an abortion (which is illegal in Botswana) he had to pay 100 pula (about $20). As he had no way to get money, he stole a radio from his host family, the Tsolamoseses. After the abortion, he got angry with his

neg: Karim Sadr 1 2. Sadr, K. (ed). 2001. Essays on Botswana Archaeology. Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies, volume 15, number 1. 1. Sadr, K., Gribble, J. & Euston-Brown, G. 2013. Archaeological survey on the Vredenburg Peninsula. In: Jerardino, A., Braun, D. & Malan, A. (eds) The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa, pp. 50–67. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 84. BAR International Series 2526. Oxford: Archaeopress. 2. Sadr, K. 2013. The archaeology of herding in southernmost Africa. In: Mitchell, P. & Lane, P. (eds) Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology, pp. 645–655. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3. Sadr, K. 2013.

neg: Khoums Khoums The khoum (, "fifth") is the subdivisory unit of the Mauritanian monetary system, the Ouguiya. Five khoums make an ouguiya, hence one khoums can be expressed as 0.2 ouguiya. When the ouguiya was adapted in 1973, it replaced the CFA franc as 5 francs to the ouguiya, thus a khoums was equal to the franc. As the franc had no subdivisional unit, all wealths in francs could be converted to ouigiya with no rounding. On the khoums coin (minted in Kremnica Mint, Slovakia), the obverse is in Arabic with the date of the Islamic calendar and the reverse in

neg: Donald Molosi off-Broadway plays, which include "We Are All Blue", "Blue, Black and White" and "Motswana: Africa, Dream Again" in 2016. Molosi attended Williams College in United States where he graduated with a double-major Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Political Science. He holds a Diploma in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and a Master of Arts degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara. Donald Molosi was born in Mahalapye, Botswana in 1985 and attended Maru a Pula School in Gaborone, Botswana before continuing his education in London and

neg: Gaborone 70.9% of the population of Gaborone have earned at least a secondary-level education 2.6% of the population of Gaborone has never attended school. Gaborone has many primary and secondary schools, both public and private. These include Westwood International School, Maru-a-Pula School, St. Joseph's College, Kgale, Legae Academy, Northside Primary School, Thornhill Primary School and Hillcrest International School. Seventeen of the sixty private schools in Botswana are located in Gaborone. The main campus of the University of Botswana (which was established in 1982) is on the eastern extent of the city. In addition there are other universities or institutions of higher

neg: Health in Botswana 101 clinics with beds, 171 clinics without beds, 338 health posts and 844 mobile stops primary health care (PHC) services in Botswana are integrated within overall hospital services, being provided in the outpatient sections of all levels of hospitals. It is through these structures that a complement of preventive, promotive and rehabilitative health services as well as treatment and care of common problems are provided. For a general check-up, citizens are charged 5 pula, unless they are under five or over 65, in which case check-ups are free. The network of public hospitals is organized between primary hospitals, which function

neg: Economy of Botswana financial services to Wholesaling and Retailing, Tourism and Information Technology. To date, the BSE is one of Africa’s best performing stock exchanges, averaging 24% aggregate return in the past decade. This has allowed the BSE to be the third largest stock exchange, in terms of market capitalisation, in Southern Africa. Given Botswana's lack of exchange controls, stable currency and exceptionally performing stock market, the financial sector has attracted a host of global investors seeking better returns. Botswana's currency, the pula, is fully convertible and is valued against a basket of currencies heavily weighted toward the South African Rand. Profits and

neg: Joseph Conrad also suggested that if we read Conrad beyond "Heart of Darkness", especially his Malay novels, racism can be further complicated by foregrounding Conrad's positive representation of Muslims. In 1998 H.S. Zins wrote in "Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies": Adam Hochschild makes a similar point: Conrad's experience in the Belgian-run Congo made him one of the fiercest critics of the "white man's mission." It was also, writes Najder, Conrad's most daring and last "attempt to become a "homo socialis", a cog in the mechanism of society. By accepting the job in the trading company, he joined, for once in his

neg: Poltura Poltura The poltura is a historic Hungarian monetary unit that was struck under the Hungarian rulers Leopold I, Joseph I, Francis II Rákóczi, Charles III and Maria Theresa. Its forerunner was the Polish półtorak, a coin equal to one and one-half grosz ("półtora" means "one and a half" in Polish). After 1526 (see Battle of Mohács) Poland gained a greater role in the reorganized economy and foreign trade of Hungary. As a result an increasing number of Polish small coins flew into the country. In Royal Hungary, Leopold I was the first who struck silver poltura on the influence of

neg: Linah Mohohlo George Washington University and University of Exeter, respectively, and received executive management training from Yale University. Linah Mohohlo was the Governor of the Bank of Botswana from 1999 to 2016, following a 23-year career with the Bank, during which she worked in support and policy areas (e.g. Board Secretariat, Human Resources, Research and Financial Markets Departments). She has also worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a Special Appointee. In her capacity as Governor of the IMF for Botswana, she has been a member of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC: 2000-02), representing the Africa Group 1 Constituency,

neg: Stichometry proved that the numerals at the end of the medieval manuscripts were proportional to the length of each work and in fact gave the total number of a fixed unit equal to a Homeric line. This discovery established the concept of the standard line. While studying the Clarke Codex of Plato's dialogues at Oxford, Martin Schanz noticed that isolated letters in the margins of two dialogues formed an alphabetic series and marked every hundredth standard line (alpha = 100, beta = 200, etc.). He was able to show that other manuscripts had similar marginal markings. His 1881 article named this

neg: Scandinavian Monetary Union same level as Denmark and Sweden, 2.48 kroner/kronor per gram of gold, or roughly 0.403 grams per krone/krona. An equal valued krone/krona of the monetary union replaced the three legacy currencies at the rate of 1 krone/krona = Danish rigsdaler = Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler. The monetary union was one of the few tangible results of the Scandinavian political movement of the 19th century. In the "World Currency" of its time, British Pounds, 1 Pound was roughly equal to = 18 Kroner. The ratio connecting the Scandinavian currencies to the Latin Monetary Union was 0.72 Krone for 1

neg: Valentine Tsamma Seane Kgaodi, a priest at the Corpus Catholic Church in Broadhurst, have stated that Kgaodi is the rightful successor to the title of bishop. The faction cites Seane's insistence of renting a 2 million pula (US$312,000 as of April 2011) house using the church's money instead of using the one provided by the church as a questionable and corrupt act as bishop. Valentine Tsamma Seane Valentine Tsamma Seane (born 2 November 1966) is the former bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaborone at the Christ the King Cathedral in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the second Motswana to be a bishop

neg: Ryō face value of one "ryō". The official rate was set in 1609 at one "ryō" equal to 50 "monme" (approx 187 grams) of silver, or 4000 brass coins. However, in reality the relative values between gold, silver and brass currencies fluctuated on an almost daily basis throughout the Edo period. In 1695 the government decided to increase the amount of metal money in circulation by debasement. As a result, the "ryō" as a unit of weight of gold and the "ryō" as the face value of the "koban" were no longer synonymous. The Keichō "koban" issued after the monetary reform

neg: Akçe fortified mining town in the Serbian Despotate rich with gold and silver mines, began to strike "akçe" in 1441 when it was captured by the Ottoman forces for the first time. The Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul is said to have cost 59 million "akçe" when it was constructed in the 1550s. This amount is said to have equalled 700,000 ducats in gold (probably Venetian). Weight of Akçe in grams of silver and index. Akçe The akçe () () was the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire, a silver coin. Three "akçe"s were equal to one "para". One-hundred and twenty

neg: Currency of Colombia houses accepted 16 pesos in silver as equal to a gold onza, whether the coins were .666 fine (= 245 g fine silver) or .903 fine (= 382 g fine silver). By 1846 newly minted coin had virtually disappeared from the province of Bogotá. Monetary reform had the backing of President Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. The first step (23 May 1846) was to permit the export of gold dust and gold bullion, subject only to a duty of 6%. The second step (2 June 1846) was to establish the silver real as the monetary unit and to adopt a uniform

neg: Portuguese dinheiro introduced, known either as the "real of 3½ libras" or the "real branco". With a value of 70 soldos, this was to become the unit of account by the beginning of the reign of João I's successor (King Duarte I) in 1433. Note that in modern Portuguese, the word "dinheiro" means "money". Portuguese dinheiro The dinheiro was the currency of Portugal from around the late 12th century until approximately 1502. For accounting purposes, twelve dinheiros equalled one "soldo" and twenty soldos equal one "libra". The basis of the monetary system was that of the Roman Empire (denarii, solidi, librae). The

neg: Money multiplier fully in control of the money creation process. The multiplier plays a key role in monetary policy, and the distinction between the multiplier being the "maximum" amount of commercial bank money created by a given unit of central bank money and approximately "equal" to the amount created has important implications in monetary policy. If banks maintain low levels of excess reserves, as they did in the US from 1959 to August 2008, then central banks can finely control broad (commercial bank) money supply by controlling central bank money creation, as the multiplier gives a direct and fixed connection between these.

neg: Mabolwe Mabolwe Mabolwe is a village in Central District of Botswana. The village is located in the eastern tip of Botswana, close to the border with Zimbabwe, and it has a primary school. The population was 735 in the 2001 census. Mabolwe village may appear to be hardly noticeable to people from other areas who enjoy the privilege of 'being original' than other areas of the country and along the A1 road enjoy. But one thing that most Batswana miss to realise is that Mabolwe area has equal opportunities to also become a tourism destination like the northern part of Botswana.

neg: Princess Marina Hospital An angiography unit (j)Facilities for prostate screening (k) An Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and (l) Radiotherapy equipment. Princess Marina hospital has 4 neonates records of people testing positive for the Klebsiella disease in 2018. Webpage of the Botswana Ministry of Health Princess Marina Hospital Princess Marina Hospital (PMH) is a provincial, government-funded hospital in Botswana. , PMH is the largest referral hospital in Botswana, with 530 in-patient beds. It is named after Princess Marina. The hospital is located in the city of Gaborone, at the corner of North Ring Road and Notwane Road. One block west, of Marina Hospital lies

neg: Water which are already at a risk of water shortage. Significant environmental damage has been caused, such as disappearance of the Aral Sea. On 7 April 1795, the gram was defined in France to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube of one hundredth of a meter, and at the temperature of melting ice". For practical purposes though, a metallic reference standard was required, one thousand times more massive, the kilogram. Work was therefore commissioned to determine precisely the mass of one liter of water. In spite of the fact that the

neg: Unit prefix not permitted. Prefixes corresponding to powers of one thousand are usually preferred, however, units such as the hectopascal, hectare, decibel, centimetre, and centilitre, are commonly used. In mathematical contexts, the unit prefixes are always considered part of the unit, so that, e.g., in exponentiation, 1 km means one square kilometre not one thousand square metre and 1 cm means one cubic centimetre not one hundredth of a cubic metre. In general, prefixes are used with any metric unit, but may also be used with non-metric units. Some combinations, however, are more common than others. The choice of prefixes for a

neg: Murder of Segametsi Mogomotsi after confessing that he and other local businessmen killed the girl, but he retracted his statement, saying that the confession was really a second-hand account. While the named businessmen were arrested, they were released, sparking controversy in Mochudi. In 2008, Sekobye Mokgalo, one of the named businessmen, asked for government compensation for the wrongful conviction. In 2009, he received 300,000 Botswana pula for damages from the government. In January 1995, students at Radikolo Community Junior Secondary School organized a march at the District Commissioner's office in Mochudi in response "perceived [...] government collusion in the practice of witchcraft". The march

neg: Makam from middle C ("Kaba Çârgâh") to the same note two octaves above ("Tîz Çârgâh"): The following table gives the tones over two octaves, ordered from highest to lowest, pitch in commas and cents relative to the lowest note, which is equivalent to Western Middle C, along with the nearest equivalent equal-temperament tone. The tones of the Çârgâh scale are shown in upper case. (A comma is one 53rd of an octave. One cent is one hundredth of an equal-temperament semitone.) The names and symbols of the different intervals is shown in the table below: Similar to the construction of maqamat

neg: Currency of Venezuela at the Royal Mint, London: Franco = 2 Reales = 20 Centavos Peso = 5 Francos = 10 Reales = 100 Centavos The monetary law of March 30, 1848 established the French franc ("franco frances"), 5·00 g, 0·900 fine, as the monetary unit of Venezuela. No detailed explanation was provided—presumably, the new government wanted to make a clean break with the policies of the conservative oligarchy ("Oligarquía Conservadora", 1830–1848) that it replaced. A table of coin ratings expressed in francos was published, and the Franco was declared equal to 20-centavos of the copper coins authorized between 1834 and 1842. Liberty-head

neg: Swatch Internet Time of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1,000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds. One .beat is equal to one decimal minute in French decimal time. Although Swatch does not specify units smaller than one .beat, third party implementations have extended the standard by adding "centibeats" or "sub-beats", for extended precision: @248.00. Each "centibeat" is a hundredth of a .beat and is therefore equal to one French decimal second (0.864 seconds). There are no time zones; instead, the new time scale of Biel Meantime (BMT) is used, based on the company's

neg: Constitution of Botswana of the scholars cited here, including Jacqueline Solway, Mpho Molomo, and Lydia Nyati-Ramahobo, praise the constitution of Botswana for being extremely progressive for its time in its attempt to have gender and minority equality; however, there are scholars that have been cited here who feel there is still work to be done in order to have a truly equal and fair constitution for all people of Botswana. Constitution of Botswana The present Constitution of Botswana commenced on September 30, 1966. Before colonial rule was established in Botswana, a traditional constitution - a body of laws known as "molao" - was

neg: Gold was introduced, it typically was a receipt redeemable for gold coin or bullion. In a monetary system known as the gold standard, a certain weight of gold was given the name of a unit of currency. For a long period, the United States government set the value of the US dollar so that one troy ounce was equal to $20.67 ($0.665 per gram), but in 1934 the dollar was devalued to $35.00 per troy ounce ($0.889/g). By 1961, it was becoming hard to maintain this price, and a pool of US and European banks agreed to manipulate the market to

neg: Festus Mogae Festus Mogae Festus Gontebanye Mogae (born 21 August 1939) is a Motswana politician who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008. He succeeded Quett Masire as President in 1998 and was re-elected in October 2004; after ten years in office, he stepped down in 2008 and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Ian Khama. Mogae studied economics in the United Kingdom, first at University College, Oxford, and then at the University of Sussex. He returned to Botswana to work as a civil servant before taking up posts with the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of Botswana.

neg: Money supply different types of inflation rather than being endogenous results of the economy's dynamics. When home prices went down, the Federal Reserve kept its loose monetary policy and lowered interest rates; the attempt to slow price declines in one asset class, e.g. real estate, may well have caused prices in other asset classes to rise, e.g. commodities. In terms of percentage changes (to a close approximation, under low growth rates), the percentage change in a product, say XY, is equal to the sum of the percentage changes %ΔX + %ΔY). So, denoting all percentage changes as per unit of time, This

neg: Bavarian gulden at a rate of 1 Mark = 35 Kreuzer. Bavarian gulden The Gulden was the currency of Bavaria until 1873. Between 1754 and 1837 it was a unit of account, worth of a Conventionsthaler, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. The Gulden was worth 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer Landmünze. The first Gulden coins were issued in 1837, when Bavaria entered into the South German Monetary Union, setting the Gulden equal to four sevenths of a Prussian Thaler. The Gulden was subdivided into 60 Kreuzer. In 1857, the Gulden was set equal to four sevenths of

neg: Bavarian gulden Bavarian gulden The Gulden was the currency of Bavaria until 1873. Between 1754 and 1837 it was a unit of account, worth of a Conventionsthaler, used to denominate banknotes but not issued as a coin. The Gulden was worth 50 Conventionskreuzer or 60 Kreuzer Landmünze. The first Gulden coins were issued in 1837, when Bavaria entered into the South German Monetary Union, setting the Gulden equal to four sevenths of a Prussian Thaler. The Gulden was subdivided into 60 Kreuzer. In 1857, the Gulden was set equal to four sevenths of a Vereinsthaler. The Gulden was replaced by the Mark

neg: Interval (music) of measurement. If frequency is expressed in a logarithmic scale, and along that scale the distance between a given frequency and its double (also called octave) is divided into 1200 equal parts, each of these parts is one cent. In twelve-tone equal temperament (12-TET), a tuning system in which all semitones have the same size, the size of one semitone is exactly 100 cents. Hence, in 12-TET the cent can be also defined as one hundredth of a semitone. Mathematically, the size in cents of the interval from frequency "f" to frequency "f" is The table shows the most widely

neg: Currency of Ecuador Montecristi, later moving to Guayaquil. It issued notes for 1, 5, and 10 pesos. copper, Birmingham, dated 1872 Ecuador's monetary unit, the peso, was renamed "Sucre" (decree of March 22, 1884, effective April 1), equal to 22.500 g fine silver. The Sucre was named after the Latin American revolutionary Antonio José de Sucre. The 1884 monetary law permitted free circulation of gold coin of France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Colombia, Peru, and the United States. As for silver, the law permitted the import of 5-franc pieces of France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland, of the pesos of Chile and Colombia, of the

neg: Koban (coin) discontinued. In the highly successful Konami franchise "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja", the lead character Goemon throws koban as shurikens. The Japanese idiom is an equivalent for casting pearls before swine. The Maneki Neko is often depicted holding a "koban", though the koban most Maneki Neko hold is indicated to be worth ten million "ryō". In "Super Mario Odyssey", the regional coins in Bowser's Kingdom are kobans with Bowser's face on them. Koban (coin) The was a Japanese oval gold coin in Edo period feudal Japan, equal to one "ryō", another early Japanese monetary unit. It was a central

neg: Macedonian denar circulation on May 15. Macedonian denar The denar (; paucal: denari / денари; sign: den, code: MKD) is the currency of the Republic of Macedonia. The first Macedonian denar was established on 26 April 1992. It replaced the 1990 version of the Yugoslav dinar at par. In May 1993, the currency was reformed. A new denar was introduced, with one new denar being equal to 100 old denari. The name denar comes from the name of the ancient Roman monetary unit, the "denarius". The currency symbol is ден, the first three letters of its name. The first denar was a

neg: Macedonian denar Macedonian denar The denar (; paucal: denari / денари; sign: den, code: MKD) is the currency of the Republic of Macedonia. The first Macedonian denar was established on 26 April 1992. It replaced the 1990 version of the Yugoslav dinar at par. In May 1993, the currency was reformed. A new denar was introduced, with one new denar being equal to 100 old denari. The name denar comes from the name of the ancient Roman monetary unit, the "denarius". The currency symbol is ден, the first three letters of its name. The first denar was a temporary currency introduced in

neg: Cross of Gold speech proposed a monetary system based on bimetallism, in which the new currency would be equal to a given amount of gold, or a larger amount of silver; at the time a given weight of gold was worth about 15 times as much as the same amount of silver. Although Hamilton understood that adjustment might be needed from time to time as precious metal prices fluctuated, he believed that if the nation's unit of value were defined only by one of the two precious metals used for coins, the other would descend to the status of mere merchandise, unusable as a

neg: North Borneo North Borneo exported 178,000 cubic metres of timber, surpassing Siam, which exporting 85,000 cubic metres of timber. The original monetary unit of North Borneo was the Mexican dollar, equal to 100 cents. The dollar was later matched to the Straits dollar and rated at 9 Straits dollars (equal to 5 US dollars at the time). Different notes were issued throughout the administration, with backgrounds featuring the Mount Kinabalu or the company arms. In 1881, 60,000 to 100,000 indigenous people lived in North Borneo. The people on the coast were mainly Muslims, with the aborigines mostly located inland. The Kadazan-Dusun and

neg: Botswana Ground Force founded after Botswana's independence, the Botswana Ground Force was not formed from colonial units formed by a colonising power, but rather were formed from the remains of the Botswana Mounted Police Unit, previously known as the Bechuanaland Mounted Police, a unit of the British South Africa Police. The contemporary roles of the Defence Force are broad for a conventional military, suggesting that the government of Botswana and the BDF subscribe to a wide view of ‘security’ and consider the Defence Force an appropriate agency for attaining much of it, an issue that has been discussed even in the BDF’s own

neg: Chinese units of measurement among other things. In imperial times, the physical standard for these was the jialiang. In the case of volume, the market and metric "shēng" coincide, being equal to one litre as shown in the table. The Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "milli-", "centi-", etc.) may be added to this word "shēng". Units of volume can also be obtained from any standard unit of length using the prefix "lìfāng" ("cubic"), as in "lìfāng mǐ" for a cubic metre. These units are used to measure the mass of objects. They are also famous for measuring monetary objects such as gold and silver.

neg: Céntimo Céntimo The céntimo (in Spanish-speaking countries) or cêntimo (in Portuguese-speaking countries) was a currency unit of Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. The word derived from the Latin meaning "hundredth part". The main Spanish currency, before the euro, was the peseta which was divided into 100 céntimos. In Portugal it was the real and later the escudo, until it was also replaced by the euro. In the European community "cent" is the official name for one hundredth of a euro. However, both "céntimo" (in Spanish) and "cêntimo" (in Portuguese) are commonly used to describe the euro cent. Céntimo or cêntimo

neg: Percentage in point Percentage in point In finance, specifically in foreign exchange markets, a percentage in point or price interest point (pip) is a unit of change in an exchange rate of a currency pair. The major currencies (except the Japanese yen) are traditionally priced to four decimal places, and a pip is one unit of the fourth decimal point: for dollar currencies this is to 1/100th of a cent. For the yen, a pip is one unit of the second decimal point, because the yen is much closer in value to one hundredth of other major currencies. A pip is sometimes confused

neg: Kilogram its weight to the weight of a standard mass, whose mass is known in kilograms, using a device called a weighing scale. The ratio of the force of gravity on the two objects, measured by the scale, is equal to the ratio of their masses. On April 7, 1795, the gram was decreed in France to be "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the metre, and at the temperature of melting ice". Since trade and commerce typically involve items significantly more massive than one gram, and since a

neg: Poise (unit) Poise (unit) The poise (symbol P; ) is the unit of dynamic viscosity (absolute viscosity) in the centimetre–gram–second system of units. It is named after Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (see Hagen–Poiseuille equation). The analogous unit in the International System of Units is the pascal-second (Pa⋅s): The poise is often used with the metric prefix "centi-" because the viscosity of water at 20 °C (NTP) is almost exactly 1 centipoise. A centipoise is one hundredth of a poise, or one millipascal-second (mPa⋅s) in SI units (1 cP = 10 Pa⋅s = 1 mPa⋅s). The CGS symbol for the centipoise is cP.

neg: Indian anna Indian anna An anna (or ānā) was a currency unit formerly used in India and Pakistan, equal to of a rupee. It was subdivided into four paisa or twelve pies (thus there were 64 paise or 192 pies in a rupee). The anna is very light-weighted. The term belonged to the Islamic monetary system. The anna was demonetised as a currency unit when India decimalised its currency in 1957, followed by Pakistan in 1961. It was replaced by the 5-paise coin, which was itself discontinued in 1994 and demonetised in 2011. Despite this, a 50-paise coin is still sometimes colloquially