alt Hacker News> The link you're quoting, the one posted, is a second hand US report.
You can tell, because a proper Brit would have given it as 2 stone, not 28 pound.
> The link you're quoting, the one posted, is a second hand US report.
You can tell, because a proper Brit would have given it as 2 stone, not 28 pound.
That seems unlikely, a proper Brit would know that a stone is defined for body weight (14 avoirdupois pounds), Wool (14, 15, or 24 pounds depending on wool class), Wax (12 pounds), Sugar and spice (8 pounds), or for Beef and mutton (8 pounds).
( Of course Scottish Britains used 16 Scottish pounds for a Scottish stone ).
The point being that 'precious' metals used a different weight measure altogether .. (common lead often used a 12 pound stone).
Such a fun system.