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You gained pounds (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Varven@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

How the eff do you gain 400 lbs?! That’s roughly 180kg!

the customary unit for body weight in the UK is, however, the stone https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1+stone+%28unit%29

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You replied to the wrong comment.

[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, and fractions of that stone? Pounds.

So like 10 stone 5 pounds.

[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I watched a video (Invidious) yesterday detailing the type of coins they used before 1971 in the UK and its empire, and it was actually insane.

1 Pound = 20 Shillings = 240 Pennies, with coins for 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 6 pennies, 1, 2, 2.5, 5 Shillings and banknotes for the Pounds, and each of these coins had 5 or more different names

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/£sd

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It kinda made sense for a while. Remember we're looking at this from a modern lense.

240 is very divisible. It's similar to why we chose 360° for a circle, or 24 hours in a day.

It stopped making sense as more and more countries shifted to decimalisation, and machines made extremely quick+accurate division trivial and accessible.