STONES
Updated: 01 December 2008
Use STONES to convert from drams, grains, grams, hundredweights, ounces, pennyweights, pounds, stones, tonnes, tons, troy pounds, or troy ounces to stones.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[STONES] (
<@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 stones:
|
grains
|
0.000010204082
|
|
drams
|
0.000279017857
|
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ounces avoirdupois
|
0.004464285714
|
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pounds avoirdupois
|
0.071428571429
|
|
stones
|
1
|
|
hundredweights
|
7.142857142857
|
|
tons
|
142.857142857143
|
|
pennyweights
|
0.000244897959
|
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ounces troy
|
0.004897959186
|
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pounds troy
|
0.058775510229
|
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grams
|
0.000157473044
|
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tonnes
|
157.473044285714
|
· Conversion of grams includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
select wct.STONES(100, 'lbs')
Here is the result set
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7.14285714285714
(1 row(s) affected)