- 1. pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 23:30:16 -0400
- A pound of feathers or a pound of gold? Gold is weighed in 14oz pounds, so the feathers have it with a 16oz pound. Michael Godafoss@AOL.com 1977 Spitfire 1973 Stag
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00067.html (6,586 bytes)
- 2. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 21:58:39 -0700
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- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00068.html (7,033 bytes)
- 3. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 22:21:09 -0400
- Michael, Look up Weights and Measures in the dictionary (or the Encyclopedia) and you will see that gold is wieghed using the Troy units of measurement where almost everything else is weighed using t
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00120.html (7,543 bytes)
- 4. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 22:50:45 -0400
- Hey Dave, Do you have the quick-n-easy formula to convert miles-per-hour to furlongs-per-fortnight ? It shows up on chemistry tests around here. The furlong is easy, being 40 rods, but what's a fortn
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00123.html (6,747 bytes)
- 5. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 96 22:37 CDT
- this site. to the less learned. I have beeen reading this site for about a month. I had a "61 TR-3 in my youth an have always needed another toy. Would the need to own a Triumph be a addition that w
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00124.html (9,568 bytes)
- 6. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 04:03:03 -0400
- There are 14 avoirdupois ounces in a Troy pound. Therefore, one pound of gold (weighed in Troy ounces as it should be), weighs 14 avoirdupois ounces. The pound of feathers (weighed in avoirdupois) w
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00130.html (7,502 bytes)
- 7. Re: pounds (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 11:27:11 -0400
- The short answer is that a fortnight is two weeks. So, the conversion: 60 mph -> furlongs per fortnight 8 furlongs per mile 24 hours per one day 14 days per one fortnight Thus, to convert miles per h
- /html/triumphs/1996-10/msg00153.html (7,728 bytes)
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