Detail on Measurement

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Detail on Measurement
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The Important Stuff

• 2.2lbs 1kg
• 5miles 8km
• 1inch 2.5cm
• 1 foot 30cm
• 1¾ pints 1litre
• 1 gallon 4.5litres
• (or 11 gallons 50litres)

Also 1 litre 1000cm3 1000kg 1 tonne (not
ton, note later)
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Imperial Measurements

• 3 feet 1 yard
• 8 pints 1 gallon
• 12 inches 1 foot
• 14lbs 1 stone
• 16oz 1 lb
• 8 furlongs 1 mile
• 22 yards 1 chain
• 1760 yards 1 mile

Length that a horse can pull a plough before it
needs a rest
Length between creases on a cricket pitch. a
standard chain
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Imperial Distance
A thumb

• Inch ()
• Foot ()
• Yard (yd)
• Chain (ch)
• Furlong (f)
• Mile (mile)

A foot
Nose to fingertip
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Imperial Weight (mass really)

• Ounce (oz)
• Pound (lb)
• Stone (st)
• Hundredweight (cwt)
• Ton (t)

c 100
1 ton 2240lbs 1 tonne 1000kg
Actually 112lbs
Given that 1kg is actually 2.2046lbs, which is
bigger a ton or a tonne?
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Imperial Volume
Americans buy ice cream and milk by the quart

• Fluid Ounce (fl oz)
• Pint (pt)
• Quart (qt)
• Gallon (gall)

This is UK This is USA US gallon UK
gallon As for other countries?
Same for pints, take note!
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Money. Now then
Today we use new pence because there used to be
old pence. However, it wasnt pence, it was
pennys. It wasnt p (as in 5p), it was d
(as in 12d) (Yes, even though it was pence, or
pennys)
Furthermore A pound note was 240d or 20/- or 8
half crowns. 1 shilling was 12 pence (12d) or 5
new pence A guinea was 21 shillings (1.05 new)

• Farthing (¼d)
• Half-penny (½d, Hapenny)
• Penny (1d)
• Three-penny-bit (3d, Thrpennybit, Thrpenny Joe)
• Six-penny-bit (6d, a Tanner)
• Shilling (1/-, a Bob)
• Two Shilling (2/-, a Florin)
• Half-crown (2/6)
• Crown (5/-)
• Ten Shilling Note (10/-, Ten Bob Note)
• Pound Note (, Nicker)

Two shillings sixpence (2/6)!
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Money Exchanges

• What is the cost of 2½ dozen articles at
  thrpence 3 farthing each?
• What is the cost of 5 dozen bread rolls at
  sixpence hapenny each?
• (hint what shop would you be in here?)
• Please remember to write your answers using the
  correct denominations of currency!

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Were nearly done
Think things were confusing? Well they still are

• How tall are you?
• How far is it to the nearest big city?
• How wide is the room?
• Whats your weight?
• How heavy is your textbook?
• What may one order at a pub?
• How big is a large bottle of Coke?

Imperial Imperial Metric Imperial Metric Imperial
Metric
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The last slide
Minutes and seconds are just measurements of
time? No. They are also measurements of angle 1
minute 1/60th of a degree 1 second 1/60th of
a minute Talking of measurements of time,
traditional Japanese clocks have 6 hours, count
backwards, use numbers 4-9 and have varying
lengths of hour! (See here)
All this and we didnt even get to mention
Rods, Poles, Perches, Bushells, Pecks,
Ells, Cubits, Acres, Troys, Quadrapods, and Gills!
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Answers to the Questions

• A ton is equivalent to 1016kg, so is bigger than
  a tonne.
• 2½ dozen articles at thrpence 3 farthing each
  would cost 9 and 4 pence hapenny.
• 5 dozen bread rolls at sixpence hapenny each
  would cost 1, 12 and 6. This is 60 rolls
  although the baker would have made 65.