On 04/04/17 03:13, ays in te year. wrote:
> On 4/3/2017 9:09 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:56:41 -0400, rickman 
>> declaimed the
>> following:
>>
>>>
>>> One thing that metric has not dealt with is the ton.  There is a metric
>>> ton, but there are also many, many other types of tons which may or may
>>> not be defined in metric, but vary from the defined 1000 kg.
>>
>>     That is a tonne, in common usage.
>>
>>     The common (short) US ton is 2000lbs. I think the long ton is 2400lbs
>> -- don't recall why...
>
> 2240 lbs because it is related to hundred weights which are related to
> stones (14 lbs per stone).  More Imperial measurement... stuff.
>
14 lbs to the stone 112 pounds (8 stone) to the hundredweight 20
hundredweight to the ton.



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