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    Ken Helwig
    BPL Member

    @kennyhel77

    Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA

    Cannot believe that I am going to ask this question…..BUT here I go.

    If something is weighed at 1.6 pounds…Does this mean one pound six ounces? I have seen on websites where this has been written and just need to make sure I get this right…please don't skewer me!

    #1819348
    John S.
    BPL Member

    @jshann

    No, it should mean 1 pound 10 ounces or so. (25.6 ounces)

    #1819352
    Ken Helwig
    BPL Member

    @kennyhel77

    Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA

    Then how does the .6 equate to the 10 ounces???

    #1819355
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    "Then how does the .6 equate to the 10 ounces???"

    Multiply 16 oz(one pound) by .6 and you get 9.6 oz, close to 10 oz. Add it to 16 oz and, as John said, you get 25.6 oz. I hope this helps, Ken.

    #1819358
    John S.
    BPL Member

    @jshann

    .6 pounds is just over half a pound or just over 8 ounces.

    #1819361
    Luke Schmidt
    BPL Member

    @cameron

    Locale: Alaska

    If you want to convert between grams, ounces pounds or whatever just type it in as a google search, for example "32 oz. to pounds." and the the search reasult should give you the answer.

    #1819364
    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    In case you're stuck off-line with only your slide rule:

    1 pound = 453.6 grams
    1 ounce = 28.3 grams

    #1819365
    Ken Helwig
    BPL Member

    @kennyhel77

    Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA

    Thanks all….and I appreciate no one teasing me :)

    #1819371
    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    >"I appreciate no one teasing me."

    I never did figure out pounds, shillings and pence before they went decimal!

    And only my son understands galleons, sickles and knuts – the monetary system in Harry Potter.

    I just asked him: 29 knuts in a sickle, 17 sickles in a galleon.

    #1819374
    Mary D
    BPL Member

    @hikinggranny

    Locale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge

    My iMac has a "Dashboard" program that includes a calculator and conversions. I should use it more often–I always thought a hectare was smaller than an acre, but I recently discovered that a hectare is 2 1/2 times bigger!

    Getting decimals involved with pounds and ounces is dicey (it's so easy with metric measurements!). Just remember that there are 16 ounces in a pound, so get out your calculator (or spreadsheet) and multiply 16 by the decimal.

    I have this feeling that JK Rowling was mocking the former English system!

    #1819386
    Stephan Doyle
    Member

    @stephancal

    I suspect sometimes it does, Ken. But it shouldn't.

    After all, if you have a bag that weighs 30 oz, do you say 1.14 pounds? No, you should say 1.9 pounds.

    #1819388
    MFR
    Spectator

    @bigriverangler

    Locale: West

    To be fair, I have definitely seen mainstream publications confuse this issue quite a bit (Outside's most recent gear issue comes to mind). Where some gear might weigh 2 lbs, 4 oz, they'll list it at 2.4 lbs.

    Now that I know to watch out for it, it just feels sloppy.

    #1819391
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Ken, I'm totally confused. I didn't think alcohol was measured in pounds…..

    #1819392
    MFR
    Spectator

    @bigriverangler

    Locale: West

    I found the article that I remembered, about the Deuter ACT Zero 50+15. It weighs 3 lbs, 6 oz not 3.6 lbs as they list it.

    http://blog.deuterusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BGS11_Hike_Packs.jpg

    #1819424
    Nick Gatel
    BPL Member

    @ngatel

    Locale: Southern California

    @ Ken,
    It is an excellent question!! I have noticed that this generation does use 0.X as ounces, when it really is tenths of a pound. But when you grow up using a decimal system it is understandable. I always am wary when I see pounds with a decimal.

    @ Dave T,
    I like your style!

    Old Gear 2

    #1819454
    David Thomas
    BPL Member

    @davidinkenai

    Locale: North Woods. Far North.

    >"I have this feeling that JK Rowling was mocking the former English system!"

    Mary,

    That was my take on it as well.

    The brillant thing was that she could have that perspective from INSIDE the system.

    #1819500
    Sabine Funk
    Member

    @sabinefunk

    Thanks for making all that stuff clearer =)
    I'm sort of glad that even you guys can have trouble with it.
    As a european I only knew grams and kg, when I first came to the states, and I still don't know all about the "new" measurement.

    #1819505
    James Marco
    BPL Member

    @jamesdmarco

    Locale: Finger Lakes

    Ounces and Fluid Ounces vary.
    A floz is 29.57 ml or grams. This varies by country and system.
    "US regulation 21 CFR 101.9(b)(5)(viii) also defines a fluid ounce as exactly 30 millilitres, but this is for use in nutrition labeling only" (Wikopedia)

    Anyway, ounces, fluid ounces, Imperial gallons, gallons, is all screwwed up. I usually go with ~28g=1ounce unless I get rounding errors for larger numbers (over 3 ounces.)

    A fl ounce of alcohol does NOT weigh 1 ounce. Closer to .78ounce by density. It has some water in it so I allow for that by rounding to .8. Not real accurate, I am backpacking…

    #1819537
    Erik Basil
    BPL Member

    @ebasil

    Locale: Atzlan

    Ahh, but a fluid ounce of pure water weighs an ounce. The tequila, less accurate. What do 16 of those weigh? One.

    And what's a cubic centimeter, also known as a millileter, of water weigh? One. A thousand of those weigh, one.

    Watah. It's the watah.

    #1819635
    Ken Helwig
    BPL Member

    @kennyhel77

    Locale: Scotts Valley CA via San Jose, CA

    Thanks for the answers all…. It is much clearer now. 10 years of weighing everything and I never stopped to figure this out…… Doh

    #1819654
    James Marco
    BPL Member

    @jamesdmarco

    Locale: Finger Lakes

    Ha, ha….1/0=infinity. 1/1=1. 0/1=0. so, what is 0/0?

    #1819768
    Roger Caffin
    BPL Member

    @rcaffin

    Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

    > Ha, ha….1/0=infinity. 1/1=1. 0/1=0. so, what is 0/0?
    Officially 'undefined'

    Try Godel, Escher & Bach
    Or Ian Stewart (UK mathematician)

    Cheers

    #1819795
    Erik Basil
    BPL Member

    @ebasil

    Locale: Atzlan

    Hey, wait a cotton-pickin' minute: nobody said there was gonna be a math test.

    #1819835
    Franco Darioli
    Spectator

    @franco

    Locale: Gauche, CU.

    how long is a cotton-pickin' minute ?
    Franco

    #1819843
    Jim Colten
    BPL Member

    @jcolten

    Locale: MN

    Try Godel, Escher & Bach

    Just the memory of it makes my head hurt and eyes cross:-)

    But I've gotten a lot of mileage (would that be kilometerage outside the U.S.?) out of Hofstadter's Law … spent five months demonstrating that one last year (a home improvement project).

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