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Re: More and more weight/mass Units



I haven't lived in England for quite a while, but I think it is 20 pounds
(weight, not money). It is possibly a remnant of counting on your fingers
and toes and wanting a unit to mark each time you had done that.

Until recently there was a comparable monetary unit, some thing like a
guinea=20 pounds.


Richard Grandy
Rice University
Houston, TX


Not to further muddify things at all, but I've known several British
people who tell me their weight in "stones" - something I've never seen
in a Physics book. Does anybody know anything about this unit? Is it
weight or mass? The "British" unit of "slug" only ever seems to appear
in American Physics books. Check out
http://www.speckdesign.com/Tweight.html for more weight/mass conversions
than you ever cared to see. This calculator translated my weight (200
pounds) to 14.3 stone, though I think calling myself 3.5 million carats
has some appeal!


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Doug Craigen
Latest Project - the Physics E-source
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