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Old 08-09-2005, 21:07   #23
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Re: tons and tonnes
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Originally Posted by JohnHorb
To get really pedantic, taking 1 pound = 0.45359237 kg

2240lb = 1016.0469088 kg

(bet you wish you'd never started this, Marky )

[Edit] Damn, beaten to it!
Actually, I suppose we ought to quote the conversion to the same number of sig figs, namely 8, which gives us a miserly 1016.0469 kg.
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