Bathroom Scale Query?

[cleoval]

Hi I have just bought some Digital Bathroom Scales and I do not understand the reading.It says 12.19.What is the 19? Is it ounces.? Thanks.

[ToraToraTora]

TCL....I need a lie down!

[ToraToraTora]

hey bluemoon gets the BA but I said it first! Foul!

[shoota]

Ahem, Tora, see 01.08...

[ToraToraTora]

shoota, your answer is correct but you did not answer the question; "What is the 19? Is it ounces.? "

[cleoval]

Thanks for the answers about the Scales everybody.

[ToraToraTora]

cleoval, can you tell us, was the .19 indeed .19 of a stone? thanks.

[KARL]

bhg481 09.37, In addition to conversations with people in Europe and beyond, I sometimes rent cars outside the UK so when thinking of refuelling I find it easiest to think in terms of litres/100km, then and always - at that point the Imperial system is an entirely unhelpful distraction. You correctly point to another baffling anomaly - even the UK does not use the Imperial Gallon any more (the US Gallon is still in use there) so why burden oneself with calculating back and forth using it ?

[jennyjoan]

Look there is 16ounces in one pound, so if the scales read as 12.19 then that would be 13stone and 3 ounces - end of.

[nescio]

but there are 224 ounces in a stone

[cleoval]

Tora tora tora, I think my scales r faulty so I have bought today new ones.Thanks for your answers.Love your dog picture.

[ToraToraTora]

JJ, I cannot see how 12.19 could possibly be 13st stone and 2 ounces, the dot in the middle is a decimal point, it almost certainly means Twelve point one nine stone, as pointed out by at least 3 people above if it was ounces it would say 13.3 - by your logic 11.35 or 10.51 etc also means the same!

[pastafreak]

cleoval...can you tell us the make and model of your scales. It might help to answer your query...if not for you, at least for everyone else on this thread.

[jennyjoan]

I was going to answer but then I couldn't be arsed

[THECORBYLOON]

JJ, there are eight pints in a gallon, how many pints are there in 1.9 gallons?

[gingejbee]

Of course, you could find out what any Imperial weight REALLY means by flicking the switch to "metric", weighing yourself and converting back to stones and pounds. (I know that 12.19 means 12stones and 0.19 of a stone....mine does the same).

[jennyjoan]

corby - you'd have to work that out yourself as I am not a mathematician

[snags]

'' I do not understand the reading''

Duh... 12 days 19 apples.

[ToraToraTora]

hardly maths JJ, 1.9 x 8 = 15.2

[Mamyalynne]

Corby - 16 and a swig for the barmaid.

[THECORBYLOON]

Do you think there are seventeen pints in 1.9 gallons if you believe there are nineteen ounces in 0.19 stone?