• SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Lived in the UK for quite some time now. Still can’t wrap my head around stone…which is kinda ironic being a Stonemason and all…

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      4 months ago

      What’s to wrap your head around? It’s 6.35kg or 12lbs.

      Importantly it is only ever used to measure the weight of humans

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        4 months ago

        It’s 14lbs, or 6.3503kg. It’s the conversion, I can work in mm/cm/m, or fractions of in/ft/yd, but despite knowing what the conversion numbers are, mental mathing it does not jive with my brain. Same with g/kg oz/lb and stone.