In Canada we have 3 measurements for the great weight. No not the stone! The regular ton, or short ton, the English or long ton and the metric tonne.
A ton 2000lbs 2200lbs and of course 1000kgm. Now the lbs are generally imperial not troy. We go into the grocery store, weight the produce in lbs and pay by the 100 gms. Makes sense, not to me, but the merchants like the confusion. My understanding was that the US used the English measurements but then they decided to leave the bad King. So later, when the English decided to standardize hence, gallon was changed along with the fluid oz etc in England.The merchants in the colonies realized that they could make some sweet money. Buy a gallon of French wine from the English (Imp 160fl oz) then sell it for the old gallon (old 132 fld oz)! WOW > Hi John, and thanks for the information! Very interesting indeed. I > have never heard of Imperial and US tons before. The only ton I knew > of is 1 ton = 1 Mg (or 1000 kg if you prefer that look) exactly, > "metric" tons perharps? Seems to be very close to an Imperial ton, > however. > > Thanks again for the info! > > > Johnny > > > John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev den Mon, 09 May 2005 > 16:20:44 -0400: > > > Johnny Andersson wrote: > >> John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev den Thu, 05 May 2005 > >> 20:40:58 -0400: > >> > >>> Randomthots wrote: > >>> > >>>> The metric system is very logical. I like it a lot. But if you > >>>> live in the States then the reality is that most of the > >>>> measurements you see and live with are in the Imperial scale, > >>>> like it or not. > >>> > >>> > >>> No, the US system. Imperial measures were /never/ used in the > >>> United States. > >>> > >> Yeah, you are right. I think I read somewhere, about 22 years ago > >> > >> (or more), that a british inch=25.40001 mm and a US inch=25.39999 > >> mm. Or was it vice versa? I am not sure, this long time later. I > >> don't even remember where I read it... > > > > It used to be that the US inch was exactly 1/39.97 meter > > (approximately 2.54000508cm) and the Imperial inch was > > approximately 2.53999cm. There was also a slight difference between > > the US and Imperial pounds. The two inches and the two pounds were > > brought together in 1959, but /all/ volume measurements remain > > substantially different, and not in a uniform or easily > > systematized manner. For example, an Imperial fluid ounce is > > approximately 0.9608 US fluid ounce, but an Imperial pint is > > approximately 1.2009 US liquid pint, or approximately 1.0321 US dry > > pint. > > > > Also, an Imperial ton is 2240 pounds, but a US ton is 2000 pounds. > > (Except that a US "long ton" is an Imperial ton.) > > > > A further confusion is caused by the fact that US surveyors refused > > to change their inch in 1959, so a US surveyor's mile is about an > > eighth of an inch longer than a US statute mile. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For > additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
