"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/03/2017 at 17:42 • Filed to: Artillery, Imperial units
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
06/03/2017 at 17:42 • Filed to: Artillery, Imperial units | 1
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The Americans as we know like to use Legacy Units. Hogsheads, bushels, pecks, roods, furlongs, yards and a whole panoply of unrelated units of measurement called after things like the distance between one English king’s nose and his outstretched arm.
Here we find an artillery piece whose weight is quoted in Legacy Units. Fifty of a larger unit, one of a subdivision and twenty-three of a further subdivision. The weight corresponds to 2,563 kg.
Now, what are the three different units?
Alfalfa
> Cé hé sin
06/03/2017 at 18:13 |
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Hundredweight, quarter hundredweight, and pounds?
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Cé hé sin
06/03/2017 at 21:34 |
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no idea.
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Cé hé sin
> Alfalfa
06/04/2017 at 05:17 |
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....is the right answer!
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Cé hé sin
> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/04/2017 at 05:20 |
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Hundredweight, quarters, pounds.
So (50*112) + (1*28) + 23 = 5,561 lbs = 2,522 kg