GRAINS
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use GRAINS to convert from drams, grains, grams, hundredweights, ounces, pennyweights, pounds, stones, tonnes, tons, troy pounds, or troy ounces to grains.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[GRAINS] (
<@Weight, float,>
,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>)
Arguments
@Weight
is any real number. @Weight is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.
@From_scale
is the description of the units for @Weight. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in weight unit representations. @From_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
Return Types
float
Remarks
· The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the weight units of measure into grains:
|
grains
|
1
|
|
drams
|
27.34375
|
|
ounces avoirdupois
|
437.5
|
|
pounds avoirdupois
|
7000
|
|
stones
|
98000
|
|
hundredweights
|
700000
|
|
tons
|
14000000
|
|
pennyweights
|
24
|
|
ounces troy
|
480
|
|
pounds troy
|
5760
|
|
grams
|
15.4323584
|
|
tonnes
|
15432358.4
|
· Conversion of grams includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.GRAINS(100, 'lbs')
Here is the result set
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700000
(1 row(s) affected)