On Mon, 3 Apr 2017 22:13:12 -0400, rickman  declaimed the
following:

>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.

 Especially since the short ton is also defined in "hundredweights" --
but in the US system where the hundredweight is just that: 100 lbs.
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