Metric Converter

Here’s a few of the more commonly asked fun conversion questions that always seem to come up in conversation:
• one British stone = 14 pounds or 6.3 kilos
• a fathom is 6 feet (1.8288 meters exactly)
• a furlong in horse races is 1/8th of a mile
• a nautical league is exactly 3 miles or 4.828 km
• 1 hectare of land is 2.471 acres and 1 acre is 0.40 hectares
• a bolt of cloth is 100 yards on a modern loom
• a carat equals 200 milligrams exactly-in gold it is used to measure the amount of alloy per 24 parts (thus 24-carat gold is pure and 18-carat gold is ¼ alloy
• bars of gold come in either 1kg or 12.5 kg measurements
• speed of sound (aka Mach 1) is 763.67 mph (1,229 km/h) in dry air at sea level
• the speed of light is 186,282.396 miles per second or 299,792.458 km/sec. (in a vacuum)
• 5 Imperial gallons equals 6 US gallons