A Sum For You

[jennyjoan]

what is 12.13.2lbs minus 12.12.4lbs - I do know but just wanted to know if I am correct. How many ounces per se

[THECORBYLOON]

If that's 12st 13.2lbs less 12st 12.4lbs, that's a drop of 0.8lbs or 12.8oz.

[CrapAtCryptics]

If I`m reading it right 11.2 ounces

[jennyjoan]

I read it at 14ozs

[Toorak]

Is it 12 stone 13 lb 2 oz minus 12 stone 12 lb 4 oz ? If so, it is 14 oz

[jennyjoan]

toorak - thanks - that's what I got

[Gizmonster]

Depends how u interpret the notation.
Is it 12 st 13.2 lb or 13 at 13 lb 2 oz?

[jim360]

I'd tend to agree with Toorak. Imperial notation is weird.

[THECORBYLOON]

There are too many decimal points so what is the weight, is it

12st 13.2lb or 12st 13lb 2oz?

Does the display on the scales show a decimal point after the stones?

[Gizmonster]

Don't know what happened to my answer
The last bit should read is it 12 st 13 lb 2 oz?

[jennyjoan]

LOL - it is ok - 14ozs is what I got. That'll have to do me.

[THECORBYLOON]

JIM, Imperial notation is weird only if folk don't write it correctly.

A weight does not have more than one decimal point in it whether it's in stones, pounds, ounces or stones, pounds and ounces.

[jim360]

Why would you use decimal points (ie, base 10) in imperial units (ie, very much not base ten)? It would be more natural to write 1.11.13 for 1 stone 11 pounds 13 ounces, rather than, say, 1 11.8125.

[Jackdaw33]

No it wouldn't. The correct notation is 1st 11lb 13 oz.

[jim360]

Well, granted, but if it's established that you're working in Imperial Units then using a shorthand isn't exactly a surprise.

It's odd that 12.13.2 is followed by pounds, though.

[THECORBYLOON]

"It would be more natural to write 1.11.13 for 1 stone 11 pounds 13 ounces, rather than, say, 1 11.8125."

For a length, would you write 1.2.8 or 1yd 2ft 8ins?

[THECORBYLOON]

JIM, that is why I think the "13.2" means 13.2lb and not 13lb 2oz.

[jim360]

Different example: if you don't complete an over in cricket but, for whatever reason, only bowl 5 balls in that over, then that's recorded as 0.5 overs, which clearly doesn't mean "half an over" (ie 3 balls).

I don't believe that jj's weights are using decimal points. I mean yeah maybe they are but it just seems very weird to do that in a non-decimal system.

[THECORBYLOON]

I have seen weights written as 12-2-14 for example ,meaning 12st 2lb 14oz but the use of two decimal points is not normal.

I mind on a Crystal Maze programme where weights measured in Imperial units were involved in the puzzle and one of the units was hundredweight.

It's written as "cwt" but the folk had no idea what it meant and it was odd to keep hearing it called "cwt" instead of hundredweight.

[douglas9401]

Complete metdown ensues when it's revealed that a hundredweight is 112 pounds, except in America where for some odd reason it's 100. :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

Their gallons are less than ours too.