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Post by johnsmith on Oct 21, 2022 13:23:29 GMT
"The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than it is long, with a truncated back fin and mushroom-colored skin, the fish weighed in at just more than three tons (2,744 kilograms). This beats out the previous bony fish record holder, another bump-head sunfish caught off the coast of Japan in 1996 that tipped the scales at more than 2.5 tons (2,300 kilograms). (Cartilaginous fish such as whale sharks can grow even bigger than bony fish.)"
The conversions from ton -> kilograms is all wrong!
What other basic stuff are they wrong about? No proof readers? No Editors?
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Post by ECE Prof on Oct 21, 2022 14:06:53 GMT
"The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than it is long, with a truncated back fin and mushroom-colored skin, the fish weighed in at just more than three tons (2,744 kilograms). This beats out the previous bony fish record holder, another bump-head sunfish caught off the coast of Japan in 1996 that tipped the scales at more than 2.5 tons (2,300 kilograms). (Cartilaginous fish such as whale sharks can grow even bigger than bony fish.)"
The conversions from ton -> kilograms is all wrong!
What other basic stuff are they wrong about? No proof readers? No Editors?
I'm not sure why you're posting about this on an investment site, but their math is correct. 3 tons x 2,000 lbs per ton = 6,000 lbs 6,000 lbs / 2.205 lbs per kg = 2,744 kg In spite of the comments about metric system here, I just wanted to add that Britain and the US move over to the metric system. Fortunately, except in the first years of Engineering education, I had never dealt with the "inches, feet, lb…" in my professional life. That was a pain in my butt back in India in the early 1960s when we moved from the British units to the metric units. All units in ECE even here are in metric even back then, except in the British books. All text books also use metric units. Why cannot the public also use the same that are used all over the world? The time for the US and UK are up now. Why should our kids have to convert, when they go out on sales and service everywhere in the world except in these two countries. It is time that UK and US also move along with the rest of the world. |
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Post by johnsmith on Oct 21, 2022 14:41:10 GMT
Norbert I'm assuming you were having a laugh  and it's the "off topic" section of the board 
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