- 1. Re: Stoned in NJ (score: 1)
- Author: Johnmowog@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:39:14 -0500
- Have to call you on this one... (66+66)+ (16.5+16.5)=4356 sq feet, which is .10 acre, not 1 acre. The correct formula is 2 chains and 20 rods to an acre. (132 x 330) What I want to know is why we got
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- 2. Stoned in NJ (score: 1)
- Author: Jerome Keller <jkeller@cc-mail.pica.army.mil>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:00:56 -0500
- On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Denise Thorpe wrote: "Only the British would feel the need to tell you that 72 is over half of a hundred." and Ray Gibbons replied: "Not half a hundred, but half a hundredweight.
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- 3. Re: Stoned in NJ (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:26:24 -0800 (PST)
- "[A]n official British unit equal to 14 pounds" -- Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Andrew Mace e-mail: amace@unix2.nysed.go
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- 4. Re: Stoned in NJ (score: 1)
- Author: MARTIN G BAKER <SCEMGB@cardiff.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:28:25 GMT
- I just happened to have the conversion tables handy. One Stone is equal to 4900 scruples(apothecary) or 14 pounds(avoirdupois) or 6.350293243 Kilograms We usually use them for measuring our own weigh
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- 5. Re: Stoned in NJ (score: 1)
- Author: wls@homarus.ccsu.ctstateu.edu (Bill Singleton)
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:11:03 -0500
- And before anyone grumbles about stone and pounds, remember there are still folks in the good ol' USA for whom measurments such as chains and rods (66 and 16.5 feet, respectively) are still importan
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