Dagostinia keeps it's weights and measures tied to duodecimal (base-12) and sexagesimal (base-60) systems of counting.  Duodecimal systems allow division of units by 2, 3, 4, and 6.  Sexagesimal also allows division by 5 and 10.  The duodecimal system is commonly used in the inch-foot system, the dozen-gross system, music, months, and others.  The sexagesimal system is commonly used for time (seconds-minutes-hours) and latitude and longitude coordinates.  It is not difficult to comprehend for other units of measure as well.  Dagostinia accepts the colon ':' as a separator between dozenal units adding a semicolon ';' for factors below one, that is, 1:2:3;4:5 refers to 1 mass, 2 dozen, 3 units, 4 dodth, 5 grosth.  Without the semicolon, each factor is considered to be a whole factor.

The decimal system is inconvenient for everything except the amount of fingers that humans have.  Finger counting in dozenal is accomplished with each of the three phalanx sections of four fingers.

In reference to factors, Dagostinia recognizes the US system, i.e., 'billion' = 10e9, 'trillion' = 10e12, 'quadrillion' = 10e15 and so forth.

The previous system was considered vain and unnecessary.  The new tables are more indicative of the measures that are more relevant around Dagostinia.  All measurements based off of the body are based on the Monarch:

Length:

• • 1 digi ~ 1.33 inch (index finger, second joint length)

  • 1 phal ~ 4 inches (index finger length)

  • 1 hand ~ 9 inches (handspan from pinky tip to thumb tip)

  • 1 pid ~ 1 foot (heel to toe, used for pacing steps)

  • 1 wing ~ 6 feet (wingspan, finger tip to finger tip)

Height:

• • 1 mon ~ 6'-3" (height of the monarch)

  • 1 stretch ~ 8' (limit of fingertips whilst on flat feet)

Area:

• • 1 bed ~ 25sf (a practical size for raised bed gardening)

  • 1 lot ~ 5000sf (the area of former Dagostinia proper)