From: Adam Flinton 

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:419ccb27$1{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>>>I don't know if you yanks use stone so
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>>>>1 Stone = 14 pounds thus this beast = 280 lbs
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>>>We don't.  That's a freaking weird unit, but I guess it's no more
>>>illogical than one mile being 5280 feet.
>>>
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>>Or 16 ounces in a pound.
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>>or 2240 pounds in a ton
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> Damn metric system, where's the fun?
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> Antti Kurenniemi
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The nice thing about a lot of imperial is that it's usually divisible by 2.
Comes back to being able to fold something accurately in half or come up
with 2 equal weights using a balance.

Adam

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