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- From: glen@slate.cs.wisc.edu (Glen Ecklund)
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- Subject: Re: Metric and Imperial Units (was Canadian English)
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:59:39 GMT
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- wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
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- >On the subject of imperial measures, why do Americans never seem to use stones
- >to measure weight? At the level of human bodyweight stones are psychologically
- >much easier to deal with than pounds. I know that I have to lose 3 stone or so,
- >which seems attainable, whereas trying to lose 42 pounds would seem an awful
- >lot. You also get decent numbers like 8 stone to the hundredweight and 144 to
- >the ton.
- >--
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- >Stephen Wilcox | For Sale: Posts in British Government. Suit
- >wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk | outgoing American. Highest bids accepted.
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- Gee, we have 100 pounds in a hundredweight. Seems decent to me.
- Also, 2000 pounds in a ton.
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- I don't think you'll get very far in trying to make things more complicated
- than they already are.
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