Comment on Measurements

sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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  • el_abuelo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      <3

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