Brits - how much is a "stone"

Brits - how much is a \"stone\"

I have never had that explained to me. I was talking today with a importer and he told me a package weighed about what he did, in "stone" (think it was like 18, he is a big guy). I realized I had no idea how much that was.

On the other side of the coin, tell somebody from Europe that a part "is about 11/16ths" and listen to them blow a gasket. I nearly fell out laughing one time when a friend was ordering a part from Ducati, I could hear the Italian guy screaming at him on the phone "Amercia HAS to convert to metric, you are behind the rest of the world!!!"

Told him next time to order in cubits.

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I use http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/conversions.html to make things simple when i'm on cpf.

Geoff

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It's funny in the UK, technically we have converted to use Centimetres, Kilo's, Litres etc but we still use inches & feet, pounds & stones & gallons! I guess it takes a while to change a whole nations way of looking at things.
With stones, I'm about 6ft tall and weigh about 13 stone - pretty much average I think, you can convert that yourself!

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1 Stones (British, legal) equals 17.0139 Pounds (apothecary)
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 14 Pounds (avoirdupois)
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 17.0139 Pounds (troy)
Hope that helps (from the site Geoffchan refered to)

For those that prefer British units
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 6.35029 Kilograms
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 0.0635029 Quintals (metric)
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 0.435133 Slugs
1 Stones (British, legal) equals 0.0555556 Weys (British)

And prefixes for metric
Prefix Symbol Length, Area Volume
weight,
------ ------ capacity ---- ------

yotta 10^24
zetta 10^21
exa E 10^18 10^36 10^54
peta P 10^15 10^30 10^45
tera T 10^12 10^24 10^36
giga G 10^9 10^18 10^27
mega M 10^6 10^12 10^18
hectokilo hk 10^5 10^10 10^15
myria ma 10^4 10^8 10^12
kilo k 10^3 10^6 10^9
hecto h 10^2 10^4 10^6
basic unit - 1 meter, 1 meter^2 1 meter^3
1 gram,
1 liter
deci d 10^-1 10^-2 10^-3
centi c 10^-2 10^-4 10^-6
milli m 10^-3 10^-6 10^-9
decimilli dm 10^-4 10^-8 10^-12
centimilli cm 10^-5 10^-10 10^-15
micro u 10^-6 10^-12 10^-18
nano n 10^-9 10^-18 10^-27
pico p 10^-12 10^-24 10^-36
femto f 10^-15 10^-30 10^-45
atto a 10^-18 10^-36 10^-54
zepto 10^-21
yocto 10^-24

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This is why I stick to just 'light' and 'heavy'! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Uh, that must mean I'm about ten stone (170 pounds)? Hmmmmmmm ...

Somehow that strikes me a one of those measures that is as useful and common (to me in the USA) as "a snails pace."

(Actually, while I was at Bell Labs, a bunch of us fiddled with that. Not because we needed to, but because we were used to measurements being provided in the most obscure and arcane manner possible in many scientific journals. We eventually agreed that the proper designator for "A Snail's Pace" was "Furlong per Fortnight." So instead of using MPH or F/s or M/s we would sometimes toss in F/F as the measure for speed ... with, of course, a footnote to clarify it to Furlongs per Fortnight. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

Sometimes we had too much time on our hands? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Tomas said:
..."A Snail's Pace" was "Furlong per Fortnight."... )


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Tomas---By any chance did you ever teach High School physics? I can clearly remember my HS physics teacher making us convert furlongs per fortnight into a usable unit.

He was a great guy. Our exams always featured Super Chicken and Willie the Worm. Those two were always getting into all sorts of trouble on ferris wheels and rocket cars. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
---Marc

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No, MicroE, I never taught Physics but I think the resullts were published in, uh, "The Journal of Irreproducible Results" (was that the name?) in the early to mid '80's. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I wouldn't doubt that it got tossed around all over the place on ARPAnet, 'cause I know I and others e-mailed it all over the place.

About when was your HS physics?

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/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.sciencemadesimple.net/fruit.html

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Tomas said:
About when was your HS physics?

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When dinosaurs roamed the Earth. 1980.

---Marc

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Tomas said:
No, MicroE, I never taught Physics but I think the resullts were published in, uh, "The Journal of Irreproducible Results" (was that the name?) in the early to mid '80's. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif


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I believe you are referring to the "Annals of Improbable Research"

Hot AIR

Tune in to NPR the day after thanksgiving for Science Friday, they broadcast the AIR IgNobel awards every year. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

--Scrimmy

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No, Brotherscrim, I think it actually was their rival, The Journal of Irreprodicible Results, that has been around for even longer. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I could easily be wrong, though, since that is one of the areas in my brain that has fallen into a black hole. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon23.gif