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From: Carleton MacDonald <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, 2005-07-09 12:37
In the London double level buses I noticed a sign above the driver:
“HEIGHT 4390 MM / [I forget what it was in FFU]”
The reason I remember the height so easily was because if you change the figure to grams, that’s what my son Jeffrey was when he was born (it was on his bassinet card and birth certificate form).
on 2005-07-10 02.54, Daniel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My what a big baby!Dear All,
Dan
As a rule of thumb:
- little babies are about 2.5 kilograms
- average babies are about 3.5 kilograms, and
- big babies are about 4.5 kilograms.
The smallest baby who survived was about 250 grams and the largest baby that I know about was 7.7 kilograms.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin ASM (NSAA), LCAMS (USMA)*
PO Box 305, Belmont, Geelong, Australia
Phone 61 3 5241 2008
Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online monthly newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. You can subscribe by going to http://www.metricationmatters.com and clicking on 'Newsletter'.
* Pat is the editor of the 'Numbers and measurement' chapter of the Australian Government Publishing Service 'Style manual – for writers, editors and printers', he is an Accredited Speaking Member (ASM) with the National Speakers Association of Australia, and a Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist (LCAMS) with the United States Metric Association.
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