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A number of units of measurement were used in the Philippines to measure various quantities including mass, area, and capacity. The metric system has been compulsory in the country since 1860, during the late Spanish colonial period. [1] A mixture of Spanish units and indigenous units were used alongside American units in the 1900s.
Various references from the same period describe it as a unit of mass: for rice, 133 lb (about 60.33 kg); for cocoa, 83.5 lb, (about 37.87 kg) one source says on the average 60 kg for rice and 38 kg for cacao [5]). Other sources claim it was the equivalent of 58.2 kg.
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10 −34 when expressed in the unit J⋅s, which is equal to kg⋅m 2 ⋅s −1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and Δν Cs. —
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 170 lb (77 kg) 1992–12–08 Philippine Christian: F: 33: Hill, Tyrus: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 185 lb (84 kg) 1996–03–20 De La Salle: F: 94: King, George (CI) 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) 220 lb (100 kg) 1994–01–15 Colorado
The equivalence for the pound was given as 1 lb = 453.592 65 g or 0.45359 kg, which made the kilogram equivalent to about 2.204 6213 lb. In 1883, it was determined jointly by the standards department of the British Board of Trade and the Bureau International that 0.453 592 4277 kg was a better approximation, and this figure, rounded to 0.453 ...
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This is a list of acronyms in the Philippines. [1] They are widely used in different sectors of Philippine society. Often acronyms are utilized to shorten the name of an institution or a company.