OUNCES
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use OUNCES to convert from drams, grains, grams, hundredweights, ounces, pennyweights, pounds, stones, tonnes, tons, troy pounds, or troy ounces to ounces.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[OUNCES] (
<@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 ounces:
|
grains
|
0.002285714290
|
|
drams
|
0.0625
|
|
ounces avoirdupois
|
1
|
|
pounds avoirdupois
|
16
|
|
stones
|
224
|
|
hundredweights
|
1600
|
|
tons
|
32000
|
|
pennyweights
|
0.0548571429
|
|
ounces troy
|
1.09714286
|
|
pounds troy
|
13.1657143
|
|
grams
|
0.03527396919
|
|
tonnes
|
35273.9619
|
· Conversion of grams includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.OUNCES(100, 'lbs')
Here is the result set
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1600
(1 row(s) affected)