On the back of the this sentence in a current thread...
"Sell them as cinnamon girl poo beans for £500/lb."
A €URO is symbolised by a letter 'E'
The Franc by a letter "F" and so on
Similarly a gram is a 'g', a kilogram is a 'Kg'.
Why do we used a letter 'L' - £ - for a Pound Stirling and the letters 'L' and 'b' for a Pound in Weight. And for that matter why (until the year I was born) was a Penny a 'D'?
And while we're at it why is a dollar an 'S'?
and the letters 'L' and 'b' for a Pound in Weight
It'll be a Latin thing I'd imagine.
And for that matter why (until the year I was born) was a Penny a 'D'?
Blame the Romans.
Libra innit.
See also solidus and denarius.
Bloody romans and their coinage.
Libra pondo Latin for pound weight who’d of thunk
librae, solidi (not shillings), and denarii. So that's what the Romans did for us 🙂
$ is the Spanish peso sign, and they used it long before the US of A
denarii
Is that where the secret pidgin used by the gay community came from?
No idea.
Id file that with mixing imperial and metric. I hate seeing things like 0.5 of an inch, 1/2 a metre and so on.
kilogram is a 'Kg
its kg
No idea.
Id file that with mixing imperial and metric. I hate seeing things like 0.5 of an inch, 1/2 a metre and so on.
0.5 isn't really metric..it's decimal vs fraction. Metric is a system of weights and measures so 1/2 a metre is fine as is 0.5 of an inch.
You could still multiply things by 0.5 before 1799 and the introduction of the metric system.
Is that where the secret pidgin used by the gay community came from?
Ooh, 'e's bold Mr. 'Orne.
I hate seeing things like 0.5 of an inch, 1/2 a metre and so on.
Yeah I get this. More with mass though. 11.5lb what is that? 11lb 8oz or 11lb 5oz?
11.5lb what is that? 11lb 8oz or 11lb 5oz?
As 11.5 equals 11 1/2 then it is clearly 11lb 8oz
you don't get many of those to the pound
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£ is a stylised L for libra, a Roman measure of weight, also lb.
Nothing wrong with 1/2 metre or 0.5lbs at all.
For kg - g is the standard abbreviation for the gramme, and k is the standard multiplier for 1,000 - see also km, kB and so on. Kilogramme though is the only SI unit that has a multiplier attached to it - fun fact.
Another fun fact - dollar derives from thaler, a coin used in Europe, short for Joachimsthal, the town where the silver was mined to produce the first ones.
kilogram is a 'Kg
its kg
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kilogram is a 'Kg
its kg
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Abbreviations for SI units are lowercase unless it's someone's name, so "kg" for [b]k[/b]ilo[b]g[/b]ramme but "mW" for [b]m[/b]illi[b]W[/b]att". There is one exception "L" for litre as lowercase "l" could be mistaken for the digit 1. The only other uppercase letters are to distinguish between multipliers that begin with the same letter so "M" for Mega and "m" for milli.
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Libra pondo Latin for pound weight who’d of thunk
Actually this has changed my view on Brexit, bloody Europeans! can we bring back the groat along with blue passports?
Edit
Fudge - turns out Groat is from the Dutch, we'll have to back to bartering until this is sorted out
we'll have to back to bartering until this is sorted out
small price to pay as long as we have control over the bartering
To avoid confusion but not always easily understood use the international banking terms GBP USD EUR etc
... worked for an American co and it used to get very confusing as a lot of stuff was in lbs weight US also have short and long tons which aren't tonnes and can never remember which is a UK ton
US use # as abbreviation/symbol for lb
small price to pay as long as we have control over the bartering
350 million groats a week for the NHS. And I'll throw in a bag of chickens for free.
