Easy way to convert is to use the converter on the mobile. If I could do those kind of sums I would have been an accountant!
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Or use pen & paper. The exercise is good for the brain.
One hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds (lbs)
one kilo = 2.20466 lbs.
Careers in Coal merchants, Agri merchants, builders merchants, food & butter manufacturers and these sort of important facts tend to stick in the mind.
Just put my calculator through the washing machine anyway so pen & paper is the way forward for me.
Oh for the good old days, when things were so much more simple...
Pounds, shillings and pence (plus guineas); furlongs, chains, links, rods, poles, perches; fathoms, shackles and cables; ounces, quarters, pounds, stones and so on...
you just knew that six at three and four(pence) were a quid, as were eight at half-a-crown....
At least, we've still got quires and reams (as far as I know?), half a dozen or a dozen eggs and pints....
Gram
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I was thinking, if you multiply cwt by 5, add the original cwt number and then stick a zero on the end
ie, 12 x 5 + 12 is 720kg...plenty near enough and no batteries or internet required!
Some other useful conversions you can do in your head
Buying carpet perhaps and need to convert square metres to square yard, adding 20% to metres gives you it in yards. ie, 10sqm is 10+2 = 12square yards, actual is 11.864
Or for linear, add 10%, cubic add 30%, all more than accurate enough
For Centigrade to Fahrenheit, Double centigrade, deduct 10% and then add 32, ie, 20c x2 -4 +32 = 68F which is bang on
"...if you multiply cwt by 5, add the original cwt number and then stick a zero on the end
ie, 12 x 5 + 12 is 720kg".........?
Should it be
"..if you multiply cwt by 5, stick a zero on the end and then add the original cwt number
ie, 12 x 5 ADD ZERO + 12 is 612kg... now plenty near enough
Gram
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Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 11/8/2012
Or use pen & paper. The exercise is good for the brain.
One hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds (lbs)
one kilo = 2.20466 lbs.
Careers in Coal merchants, Agri merchants, builders merchants, food & butter manufacturers and these sort of important facts tend to stick in the mind.
Just put my calculator through the washing machine anyway so pen & paper is the way forward for me.
Good news! the freshly washed calculator still works. Just can't do sums involving 2,5 or 9.
Just going to pop it into the tumble drier now.
Quote: Originally posted by Chalkie56 on 12/8/2012
Any way for someone to quote so many figures in imperial units and then call himself GRAM - well come on
As in the clergyman!
After all, even Napoleon banned that metric rubbish for a time....
Gram
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Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 12/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 11/8/2012
Or use pen & paper. The exercise is good for the brain.
One hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds (lbs)
one kilo = 2.20466 lbs.
Careers in Coal merchants, Agri merchants, builders merchants, food & butter manufacturers and these sort of important facts tend to stick in the mind.
Just put my calculator through the washing machine anyway so pen & paper is the way forward for me.
Good news! the freshly washed calculator still works. Just can't do sums involving 2,5 or 9.
Just going to pop it into the tumble drier now.
Does that mean you have got all your buttons back now or fried the lot
Quote: Originally posted by arc systems on 11/8/2012
wrong my foot! my brain don't need batteries.
I was thinking, if you multiply cwt by 5, add the original cwt number and then stick a zero on the end
ie, 12 x 5 + 12 is 720kg...plenty near enough and no batteries or internet required!
Some other useful conversions you can do in your head
Buying carpet perhaps and need to convert square metres to square yard, adding 20% to metres gives you it in yards. ie, 10sqm is 10+2 = 12square yards, actual is 11.864
Or for linear, add 10%, cubic add 30%, all more than accurate enough
For Centigrade to Fahrenheit, Double centigrade, deduct 10% and then add 32, ie, 20c x2 -4 +32 = 68F which is bang on
Centigrade to Fahrenheit, multiply by 1.8 and add 32 20x1.8=36+32=68, 10x1.8=18+32=50 simples
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