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12.1 cwt. = 614.7 kgs.

http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm

Wrong Mr Arc Systems!!!! Wrong wrong wrong......

Easy way to convert is to use the converter on the mobile. If I could do those kind of sums I would have been an accountant!

Phil

or use this;

http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 11/8/2012

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Or use pen & paper. The exercise is good for the brain.
One hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds (lbs)
one kilo = 2.20466 lbs.

Careers in Coal merchants, Agri merchants, builders merchants, food & butter manufacturers and these sort of important facts tend to stick in the mind.

Just put my calculator through the washing machine anyway so pen & paper is the way forward for me.

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Quote: Originally posted by Chalkie56 on 12/8/2012

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Any way for someone to quote so many figures in imperial units and then call himself GRAM - well come on

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Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 12/8/2012

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Quote: Originally posted by millermicm on 11/8/2012

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Or use pen & paper. The exercise is good for the brain.
One hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds (lbs)
one kilo = 2.20466 lbs.

Careers in Coal merchants, Agri merchants, builders merchants, food & butter manufacturers and these sort of important facts tend to stick in the mind.

Just put my calculator through the washing machine anyway so pen & paper is the way forward for me.

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Good news! the freshly washed calculator still works. Just can't do sums involving 2,5 or 9.
Just going to pop it into the tumble drier now.

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Does that mean you have got all your buttons back now or fried the lot

Quote: Originally posted by arc systems on 11/8/2012

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wrong my foot! my brain don't need batteries.

I was thinking, if you multiply cwt by 5, add the original cwt number and then stick a zero on the end
ie, 12 x 5 + 12 is 720kg...plenty near enough and no batteries or internet required!

Some other useful conversions you can do in your head

Buying carpet perhaps and need to convert square metres to square yard, adding 20% to metres gives you it in yards. ie, 10sqm is 10+2 = 12square yards, actual is 11.864
Or for linear, add 10%, cubic add 30%, all more than accurate enough

For Centigrade to Fahrenheit, Double centigrade, deduct 10% and then add 32, ie, 20c x2 -4 +32 = 68F which is bang on

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Quote: Originally posted by madasaman on 12/8/2012Centigrade to Fahrenheit, multiply by 1.8 and add 32 20x1.8=36+32=68, 10x1.8=18+32=50 simples