Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前Measurementsslrpnk.netimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down18
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minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 个月前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…
minus-squareel_abuelo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 个月前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
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 个月前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.
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 个月前Native UK here and I’ve never had a good reason to use stone as a unit of measurement. Kg works fine
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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