On 03/07/2012 22:54, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote:
On 07/03/2012 12:05 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
If I go to the moon I will weigh 2st 10lb (if my sums are correct :)
but the equivalent Frenchman will still be 86kg. I hereby put this
forward as proof that the metric system is rubbish and we should
revert back to imperial goodies.
86 kg is not a weight, it's a mass. So it doesn't depend on the local
gravity situation.
Indeed it is, as he says. But I believe he may be right in that
'stone' is a unit of weight. Hard to be sure, though, given that it's
not an SI unit (for instance, the Wikipedia article text refers to
weight, but its picture shows a man measuring mass).
ChrisA
Stone is a unit of weight (Brits know important things like this). And
with the consistency that the English language is reknowned for the
plural is, yes you've guessed it, stone :)
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Cheers.
Mark Lawrence.
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