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kengr ([personal profile] kengr) wrote 2003-10-24 04:37 pm (UTC)

My guess is that it was originall measured using some weight units outher than ounces & pounds.

I think someone in the discussion said something about it being 2.5 hundredweights (which were something like 112 pounds and change).


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