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[Sheilbh]

Isn't stones divisible by pounds?

Apparently.
Can never remember by what arbitrary number.
Most people when using stone just use stone.

1 stone = 14 pounds.

[Barrister]

Personally I use metric (human) weight,

Ok, hand back your British credentials on your way out, thank you.

You are the first native I know who isn't using stones to describe human weight. I still have no idea how many kilograms that is.

Aren't stones something like 14 pounds (just checked - they are).  So they're just a weird British imperial unit.

[Admiral Yi]

Apparently.
Can never remember by what arbitrary number.
Most people when using stone just use stone.

So you just round it up or down?  In books I've read it mentioned it always seemed to give change; i.e. "7 stone 2 pounds."

Of all the bizarre base numbers to choose, 14 has got to top them all.

[Sheilbh]

So you just round it up or down?  In books I've read it mentioned it always seemed to give change; i.e. "7 stone 2 pounds."

Of all the bizarre base numbers to choose, 14 has got to top them all.

You don't round it up. As you say you'd be like "12 stone and a half stone". I think unless it's an infant or someone dieting, you probably wouldn't care about the individual pounds

[Admiral Yi]

You don't round it up. As you say you'd be like "12 stone and a half stone". I think unless it's an infant or someone dieting, you probably wouldn't care about the individual pounds

You don't round it to the nearest stone, you round it to the nearest half stone.  Important distinction.

[Duque de Bragança]

The traditional Swedish mile is just over 10 km. The modern Swedish mile is 10 km exactly. Distances are commonly given in (modern Swedish) miles in Sweden.

Lots of countries have metric pounds as well.

[Josquius]

You don't round it up. As you say you'd be like "12 stone and a half stone". I think unless it's an infant or someone dieting, you probably wouldn't care about the individual pounds

You don't round it to the nearest stone, you round it to the nearest half stone.  Important distinction.

It works. With more normal measurements most of the time you don't say you're 78kg. 75 or 80 will do for most uses.

[Admiral Yi]

It works. With more normal measurements most of the time you don't say you're 78kg. 75 or 80 will do for most uses.

Fair enough.

[Eddie Teach]

I get my weight in tenths of kilograms.

[mongers]

Apparently.
Can never remember by what arbitrary number.
Most people when using stone just use stone.

So you just round it up or down?  In books I've read it mentioned it always seemed to give change; i.e. "7 stone 2 pounds."

Of all the bizarre base numbers to choose, 14 has got to top them all.

It isn't as there are 4 stone to 'half a hundred weight', in turn there are 8 stone in one hundred weight, as it's actually 112 lbs.

And obviously there are twenty hundred weights to a long ton, which is 2240 lbs. See simple, just so long as I don't mention the short ton*. 

Oh don't you Americans use something like 2,000 to one of your tons?

Though personally I do approve of your use of 7 barrels to a ton, especially appropriate as I think you Yanks popularised that with measuring crude oil. 


* which I used to know,  but have now forgotten. 

[Eddie Teach]

The short ton is the American ton, 2k lbs.

[Syt]

Austria uses metric of course, but has a minor quirk. When ordering cold cuts at the deli counter in a supermarket you will not order in grams but dekagrams instead, or deka for short, i.e. instead of 60 grams of prosciutto you'd ask for 6 deka of it.

[Tamas]

It works. With more normal measurements most of the time you don't say you're 78kg. 75 or 80 will do for most uses.

Fair enough.

No it isn't, with kilograms you don't have to go for the ballpark option. 14 pounds per stone? FOURTEEN?! WHY?!

[Admiral Yi]

No it isn't, with kilograms you don't have to go for the ballpark option. 14 pounds per stone? FOURTEEN?! WHY?!

14 per stone is different than rounding.  Maybe it's different in kilograms, but when people talk about weight in pounds (not stone) they usually talk in increments of five pounds.  "I ate so much last Christmas I got up to 190!"  Not 191 or 192.

[Richard Hakluyt]

It works. With more normal measurements most of the time you don't say you're 78kg. 75 or 80 will do for most uses.

Fair enough.

No it isn't, with kilograms you don't have to go for the ballpark option. 14 pounds per stone? FOURTEEN?! WHY?!

There must have been a big stone that weighed exactly 14 pounds; probably during the Heptarchy. Just count yourself lucky that it didn't weigh 15.76325 pounds