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Old 01-04-2011, 07:04 AM   #9
pdurrant
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My greatest problem with American books are the measuring units. I never know how many feet or stones make a small/tall or thin/fat person. But that you can’t change because than your home audience wouldn’t understand you.
You'll have to blame the stones on British (or Australian?) writers, not Americans. Americans give the weight of people in pounds.

A quick trick for the weights is to divide the number of pounds by 2. Thats give an approximate weight in kilograms. You can make it more accurate by taking off another 10%.

e.g. 180lb man -> 90kg man -> 82kg man.
This is a surprisingly accurate conversion, being less than 1% out.
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