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  2. Metrication in India - Wikipedia

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    Bulk cotton is sold in candies (0.35 imperial tons, 355.62 kg) or bales (170 kg). The motor industry still uses brake horsepower (Bhp) for engine power. Tyre tubes and carbonated beverages are filled in pounds per square inch. Clothing sizes are given in an integers of inches. Shoes sizes increments are a third of an inch.

  3. Human body weight - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    Zoll – Inch, usually 1 ... skippund – Ships pound, 159.488 kg. Was defined as 151.16 kg in 1270. ... skeppspund – Ships pound, 20 lispund or 170.03 kg. Nautical

  5. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  6. Body mass index - Wikipedia

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    The BMI is expressed in kg/m 2, resulting from mass in kilograms and height in metres. If pounds and inches are used, a conversion factor of 703 (kg/m 2)/(lb/in 2) is applied. (If pounds and feet are used, a conversion factor of 4.88 is used.) When the term BMI is used informally, the units are usually omitted.

  7. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

  8. Walter Hudson - Wikipedia

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    The Guinness Book of World Records officially recorded his peak weight at 1,197 pounds (543 kg), with a waist circumference of 119 inches (300 cm), the widest ever recorded; this also made him the heaviest person alive since the death of Jon Brower Minnoch and the second-heaviest person of all time. [1]

  9. Mexican units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A number of units were used. One libra (lit. "pound") was equal to 0.460 246 34 kg as it was legally defined. [1] Some other units and legal equivalents are given below: 1 tomin = 1 ⁄ 768 libra 1 adarme = 1 ⁄ 256 libra 1 ochava ("eighth") = 1 ⁄ 128 libra 1 onza ("ounce") = 1 ⁄ 16 libra 1 arroba = 25 libras 1 quintal ("hundredweight ...