Bathroom Scale Query?

[cleoval]

Hi I have just bought some Digital Bathroom Scales and I do not understand the reading.It says 12.19.What is the 19? Is it ounces.? Thanks.

[ToraToraTora]

it'll be 12.19 stone ie the 0.19 is a decimal so 0.19x14=2.66 so it's 12 stone and 2.66 pounds. There'll be a setting for KG(77.41) and just pounds (US style 170.66) and possibly stones and pounds too. Check the manual.

[ToraToraTora]

bhg: "nd when you buy car tyres you quote the diameter in inches and the width in cm - a system invented by the French firm Michelin when they invented radial-ply tyres." - car tyres are fun the diameter is in inches the width is in mm and the side wall height is the percentage that it is of the width!

[bhg481]

The aspect ratio didn't exist with early tyres - they were all "round"; my first car (1953) had 6.40 x 15 tyres ie, cross plies as deep as they were wide.

[bhg481]

Incidentally, I wonder how KARL quotes his vehicle fuel consumption, assuming he lives in the UK. We all buy our fuel in litres but I don't know anyone who quotes anything other than mpg.

[TonyV]

When my BIL was a teaching adviser ( after being a teacher) he asked the group how fuel efficient is your car! They all answered in mpg. He asked what's that in metric ie litres per 100 kilometres, no one had a clue.

[bhg481]

The trouble with litres/100km is that it's too coarse in that a difference of 1 is about the same as 5mpg. In other words 7 litres/100km = 40mpg. 8 litres/100km = 35 mpg.

[bobbinwales]

and of course distances on signs are in miles and speed limits are in miles per hour

[ToraToraTora]

Tony: "He asked what's that in metric ie litres per 100 kilometres, no one had a clue. " - surely Km per Litre would be analogous to MPG? - a quick approximation is multiply by 0.4 but I agree we all use MPG.

[ToraToraTora]

The septics do Gallons per 100 miles. US gallon = 4 fifths of a UK one mind!

[bhg481]

TTT - note they also reciprocate the number ie volume/distance where we quote distance/volume.

[jennyjoan]

I have digital scales - could it be 12.1.9 - the little dot between the one and 9 can be very tiny. Put your glasses on. That means you are 12 stone 1lb and 9 ozs. I thought that when I first weighed on them.

[barry1010]

JJ, if you put a half pound block of butter on your scales does it weigh it accurately?

[Khandro]

I'd put my money on jennyjoan 10:36

[gingejbee]

I have no idea where "KARL" comes from, or lives, but he never wastes time in having a pop at the British/UK in most of his answers...

[bluemoon1]

If it was to say 12.5 that would equal twelve and a half stone or 12 stone 7 pound. So as already stated 12.19 equals 12 stone 2.66 pound.

[ToraToraTora]

find something that weighs 7lb, put that on, if it says 0.5 then my answer at 09:25 is correct.

[ToraToraTora]

yes bluemoon as I said at 09:25

[barry1010]

Blue moon, why would they mix imperial and metric systems? Doesn't make sense, they would use one or the other, 12 and a half stone would show 12 7

[ToraToraTora]

yes but it shows 12.19 barry! that's a decimal not a metric measure. You can have 12.19 fathoms, inches, AUs, Parsecs, light years, Nautical miles, cubits......

[THECORBYLOON]

5.5' is the same as 5' 6" but they are both imperial measures.