Pound of powder into Grains
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How are those computer skills working out? Simple answer found within seconds on the web.
Somewhere between 700 and 7000??
Answer is : 7000
what he said. but lets not be redundant
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Okay guys, slightly overdoing it.
Actually, guys, if you care to check 'way, 'way back to when the pound first was standardised at its present weight, you will find that it was 7,000 actual GRAINS of grain. Same thing, an inch originally was "3 well-dried barley-corns, laid end to end".
There have been all kinds of pounds at one time or another: Roman, Carolingian, Tower, Troy and so forth. The one we have today replaced all of those except the Troy pound, which still is used for gold and silver and has 20 pennyweights of 24 grains each which is 480 grains to the ounce, 12 ounces to the pound. OUR pound, properly called a pound avoirdupois, has 16 ounces each of 437.5 grains.
That silly long-drawn-out decimal answer likely was arrived at by dividing 7000 into 1 and is only a decimal approximation. I could just as well point out that it is approximately 600000000 millimetres from Winnipeg to Regina!
A REAL POUND is 7000 grains, pure and simple.
Ain't it just GREAT that the grain is the same for all of them?
We had standardised weights and measures more than 1200 years ago. So much for metric!
There have been all kinds of pounds at one time or another: Roman, Carolingian, Tower, Troy and so forth. The one we have today replaced all of those except the Troy pound, which still is used for gold and silver and has 20 pennyweights of 24 grains each which is 480 grains to the ounce, 12 ounces to the pound. OUR pound, properly called a pound avoirdupois, has 16 ounces each of 437.5 grains.
That silly long-drawn-out decimal answer likely was arrived at by dividing 7000 into 1 and is only a decimal approximation. I could just as well point out that it is approximately 600000000 millimetres from Winnipeg to Regina!
A REAL POUND is 7000 grains, pure and simple.
Ain't it just GREAT that the grain is the same for all of them?
We had standardised weights and measures more than 1200 years ago. So much for metric!
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Edward Teach
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Grains are an Apothecary measure...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries'_system
BTW if you like that you might enjoy this (slightly off topic):
http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/currency/PreDecimal/predecimal.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apothecaries'_system
BTW if you like that you might enjoy this (slightly off topic):
http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/currency/PreDecimal/predecimal.htm
