... also stone weight.
From: "John Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > >> Too inconvenient. Do you have any idea how many Angstroms there are
to
> > >> a Farthing?
> > >
> > >Neither me nor units(1) has ever heard of farthing. But it does know
> > >furlong, which is about 2e+12 Angstroms.
> >
> > A farthing is an old unit of (British) currency. 1/6 of a penny, I
believe
> > (it was before my time).
> >
>
> Nah, it was four farthings to a penny
>
> My father used to groan, to the tune of 'Rule Britannia':
>
> Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob,
> Three make eighteenpence and four two bob
>
> How's that for a totally logical system, and I'm not even going to mention
> florins, half-crowns, crowns, zaks, threepenny bits, quids and guineas, am
I?
> Nor even ponies, monkeys and tons.
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