Talk:Batman (unit)

For real?

For real? I doubt it - can we check this? Mark Richards 19:03, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

At least one webpage confirms that [1]. Andris 19:54, May 7, 2004 (UTC)

Then I beg the humble pardon of the person who wrote this! Mark Richards 21:42, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

How is it possible that this page has been vandalized only twice in its history? 70.176.210.244 (talk) 03:12, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Moslem?

should we change "moslem?" i'm assuming this is the actual pronunciation of "muslim," since i've heard it before, just seeing if we should go for uniformity in spelling. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lockeownzj00 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 22 August 2004

Possible confusion?

Is the huge batman claimed to be a unit of mass equal to 1000 pots or poods actually a case of confusion with some different unit of volume called a pot (with that pot of volume likely having a mass of much less than 16 kg for anything less dense than mercury? Gene Nygaard 13:15, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I really don't care how many pood are equal to one Batman... I'm just happy that the relationship exists.Salvar (talk) 19:02, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Multiple meanings, or the various values of the measure

The Oxford English Dictionary (2d ed., 1989) defines the batman as "An oriental weight varying greatly in value according to the locality.", not specific to one or two areas as currently in the article. Its quotations have the following values:

• Babylon, 1599: 7 pound and 5 ounces English waight
• Unknown (in Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimages...), 1616: fiue and fiftie pound weight English
• Khiva, 1740: the great batman, equal to eighteen lb. russian, and the lesser batman, nine and a quarter.
• Constantinople, 1852: 6 okes [i.e. about 16 lbs.] = 1 batman.

—Centrx→talk • 04:33, 5 August 2008 (UTC)