TONNES
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use TONNES to convert from drams, grains, grams, hundredweights, ounces, pennyweights, pounds, stones, tonnes, tons, troy pounds, or troy ounces to tonnes.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[TONNES] (
<@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 tonnes:
|
grains
|
0.00000006480000
|
|
drams
|
0.00000177184520
|
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ounces avoirdupois
|
0.00002834952000
|
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pounds avoirdupois
|
0.00045359237000
|
|
stones
|
0.006350293
|
|
hundredweights
|
0.04535923700000
|
|
tons
|
0.90718474000000
|
|
pennyweights
|
0.00000155517384
|
|
ounces troy
|
0.00003110347680
|
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pounds troy
|
0.00037324172160
|
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grams
|
0.00000100000000
|
|
tonnes
|
1.00000000000000
|
· Conversion of grams includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.TONNES(100, 'lbs')
Here is the result set
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0.045359237
(1 row(s) affected)