Talk:Slug (mass)
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[edit] typography
What the hell does "14.593 90 kg" mean? Is this 1.59390 kg? 14,593.90 kg? I'm a reasonably informed reader and I can't parse this. Anyone have an explanation for this format? ericg ✈ 21:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
i think this means 14.59390Kg, or rounded to 14.59Kg. =)
[edit] Metric slug
There is no metric slug, (N)Newtons are for that, the slug is the imperial version of Newton. It is an invention of american who doesn't understand Newtons. This 9.80665 is the gravitional constant. So for people out of the US :"Don't use kgf or metric slug, people will laught at you." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.161.248.198 (talk • contribs).
- I don’t know whether the term “metric slug” is or rather was indeed used in the English-speaking technical world, but hyl and TME were in fact defined by standards bodies, but are long deprecated—so are all units that enclose (gravitational) constants, such as the kilopond / kilogram-force.
- I am not sure whether the hyl was a cm-g-s or a m-kg-s unit, though. Christoph Päper 15:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
