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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Went to my local shop today and eggs were 17 eurocents a piece for medium size egg in a pack of 30 or 19c for 10 pack

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Farm right outside of my town sells 48 packs for 3.12eur atm. (36 Norwegian krone)

Americans seething.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Farm just down the road sells dozens for a dollar.

But I don't really care for eggs, so I'm not seething so much as chuckling at the egg prices in the store.

This morning I passed a dozen for $6.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A farm just outside of my US town was selling eggs $5 for a dozen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dozen is 12 ? Im not used to imperial units od measurements

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh a dozen predates the imperial system by a long way. From wiki because I'm a lazy...

The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive integer groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the Moon, or months, in a cycle of the Sun, or year. Twelve is convenient because it has a maximal number of divisors among the numbers up to its double, a property only true of 1, 2, 6, 12, 60, 360, and 2520.[1]

The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (122 = 144) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen. Dozen may also be used to express a moderately large quantity as in "several dozen" (e.g., dozens of people came to the party).[2]

Varying by country, some products are packaged or sold by the dozen, often foodstuff (a dozen eggs).

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