Comment on Measurements
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
What if I need to measure the weight of my new trainers?
In stones?
Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can’t wrap my head around stone…which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all…
What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.
Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans
It’s 14lbs, or 6.3503kg. It’s the conversion, I can work in mm/cm/m, or fractions of in/ft/yd, but despite knowing what the conversion numbers are, mental mathing it does not jive with my brain. Same with g/kg oz/lb and stone.
Native UK here and I’ve never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine
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SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can’t wrap my head around stone…which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all…
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.
Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
It’s 14lbs, or 6.3503kg. It’s the conversion, I can work in mm/cm/m, or fractions of in/ft/yd, but despite knowing what the conversion numbers are, mental mathing it does not jive with my brain. Same with g/kg oz/lb and stone.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Native UK here and I’ve never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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