Question for the metric bunch

[jebbypal]

Soooo....when you give a person's weight in metric, is it in kilograms? The equivalent of gaining say thirty pounds...what would that be? yes, I know I could do the conversion, but I don't have my calculator...and I don't know if you would actually measure a person's weight in kilograms. Seems like that would be too mcuh. Some help please!

Comments

[fleshlycherry.livejournal.com]

Technically the metric unit that you would use for a persons weight would be kilograms, but we still use pounds in common usage.

30 lbs = 13.6 kg

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

It's kilograms, though it's more common to call them "kilos", at least in Swedish and English.

And I strongly recommend http://www.onlineconversion.com/ (http://www.onlineconversion.com/) for things like these - you don't need a calculator and it does pretty much every conversion you could hope for.