Heyyy what do the . Mean on the scale like for example 125.6 or like 125.2

Michaelxo444
Michaelxo444 Posts: 225 Member
edited November 14 in Health and Weight Loss
I have no idea I'm new to fitness stuff lol
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  • Katiebear_81
    Katiebear_81 Posts: 719 Member
    Ummmm... what does the decimal mean? Like 125 POINT 6 on the scale? It means that you weigh 125 + 2/3 (approx) .
  • cookmtn
    cookmtn Posts: 156 Member
    A fraction of a pound. Half a pound would be .5
  • Harold76
    Harold76 Posts: 341 Member
    To indicate a fraction of a whole.

    In the US, 125.2 pounds would mean 125 and 2/10ths of a pound.

    Other countries would write it as 125,2 pounds, meaning 125 and 2/10ths of a pound.
  • julesxo
    julesxo Posts: 422 Member
    It's a decimal point... :|
  • Michaelxo444
    Michaelxo444 Posts: 225 Member
    Thank you everyone have a beautiful day
  • Jgasmic
    Jgasmic Posts: 219 Member
    I wasn't aware decimals were a fitness thing, but here you go.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
  • esaucier17
    esaucier17 Posts: 694 Member
    I always thought it was ounces....
    like 125.2 would be 125 pounds and 2 ounces...lol

    I'm glad I saw this post!
  • amitkatz0
    amitkatz0 Posts: 61 Member
    Kids... stay in school, please.
  • Bulls_23
    Bulls_23 Posts: 199 Member
    amitkatz0 wrote: »
    Kids... stay in school, please.

    Maybe it's the new common core stuff that's confusing?

    I don't know, but I'm a little scared!
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
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  • SingRunTing
    SingRunTing Posts: 2,604 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
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    That made me giggle.
  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
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  • Burt_Huttz
    Burt_Huttz Posts: 1,612 Member
    In some countries they use commas as the decimal mark, so this isn't as strange as it may sound.
  • sgthaggard
    sgthaggard Posts: 581 Member
    I kind of get the confusion - we measure in feet and inches not feet and fractions of feet. But, yes, the decimal means a fraction.
  • SilverRose89
    SilverRose89 Posts: 447 Member
    butterflyangelxo wrote: »
    I have no idea I'm new to fitness stuff lol

    That is really not anything to do with fitness stuff :neutral_face:
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    Burt_Huttz wrote: »
    In some countries they use commas as the decimal mark, so this isn't as strange as it may sound.

    Agreed. New York is part of England isn't it?
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    sgthaggard wrote: »
    I kind of get the confusion - we measure in feet and inches not feet and fractions of feet. But, yes, the decimal means a fraction.

    Yeah no. Even though we use feet and inches, decimal points are still taught in school.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
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  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    <boggle>

    Public education, folks: your tax dollars hard at work.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    butterflyangelxo wrote: »
    I have no idea I'm new to fitness stuff lol

    You're soooo pretty. ;)
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    Everything after the dot is bonus points
    #winning
  • runnrchic
    runnrchic Posts: 130 Member
    SergeantSausage wrote: »
    <boggle>

    Public education, folks: your tax dollars hard at work.

    Scary. Will I get social security when I retire in 35 years?
  • girlwithcurls2
    girlwithcurls2 Posts: 2,282 Member
    SergeantSausage wrote: »
    <boggle>

    Public education, folks: your tax dollars hard at work.

    Yeah, but you gotta show up to gets edjucated...
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    Are you old enough to be on this site? Maybe go to spark teens instead.

    Or are you seriously an adult with access to the Internet and don't understand decimal points?

    I don't want to sound mean but decimal points are like primary school stuff.

    I could understand if your European and using a american scale.

    Europeans seem to write numbers like 1.000,00 while everyone else seems to write 1,000.00, I dislike it when trying to use excel, treating it as text instead of a number :smile:
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    edited March 2015
    esaucier17 wrote: »
    I always thought it was ounces....
    like 125.2 would be 125 pounds and 2 ounces...lol

    I'm glad I saw this post!

    How did you think that? Lol

    Aren't there 16 ounces in a pound?

    So 125.2 is 125 pound 2 ounces?
    And 125.14 which is a lower weight is some how heavier at the same time at 125 pound 14 ounces?

    Kind of scary that you probably drive cars, could own a gun, have kids and not understand decimal points.

    Or do you have scales that measure in pounds and ounces and go upto .16?

  • Burt_Huttz
    Burt_Huttz Posts: 1,612 Member
    DopeItUp wrote: »
    Burt_Huttz wrote: »
    In some countries they use commas as the decimal mark, so this isn't as strange as it may sound.

    Agreed. New York is part of England isn't it?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York,_Lincolnshire

    BOOM!
    NOW WHO FEELS LIKE A DOPE?
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Every time I get on the internet I am convinced that humans will all be gone by tomorrow...but tomorrow always comes...but someday it won't...because wow...
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited March 2015
    I'm embarrassed to admit that I was confused about this with my scale at first too. Then again, I've never been very good on the maths. I poke the sign against the evil eye at such sorcery. (Get thee behind me, simple division.)

    I actually thought it was ounces. I could never figure out why I was never, say, my pounds +10 or 11 ounces. (...cue Final Jeopardy jingle playing thoughtfully in the background)

    Then one day, it dawned on me.

    Don't worry, the next day I also figured out that just because calories are a measurement of heat, that doesn't mean ice cream has no calories. (That part was a joke. Sadly, the rest is not.)

    I've made leaps and bounds on my scale math since then and have even figured out that I can divide my .8 down to 4/5.

    One day I'm expecting to make that next quantum leap and outdo myself by figuring out how that becomes actual ounces given there are 16 ounces in a pound. I'm not quite sure yet how this leap will occur, but I currently have both electroshock therapy and transcendental meditation under consideration. Could only help.

    Yes, they do allow me to drive and operate heavy machinery. Be afraid, be very afraid.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited March 2015
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    Every time I get on the internet I am convinced that humans will all be gone by tomorrow...but tomorrow always comes...but someday it won't...because wow...

    Actually, we've kept chugging along for some 250,000+ years with severely lacking, or in many cases entirely non-existent, education among the overwhelming majority of the populace...any populace (overall).

    Believe it or not, if anything kills the human race, it probably won't be stupidity. Not if history is any indication. In fact, a little bit of education and above-average intelligence may be our undoing. We're like toddlers with a spyglass, the sunshine and a lot of ants. Really, really stupid people can't create bombs that destroy millions and encourage cancer, for example. ;)

    Go stupidity! (fist pump) Who's with me? (looking around, listening to the wind whistle hollowly through the room)

    Then again, dear cwolfman, you might make the leap and realize that people can be very, very good at some things, and very, very bad at others. ;) (Now THAT takes an evolved personality.) For instance, I can run circles around nearly everyone I know in a grammar competition...any subcategory of grammar. ;) (Though I'm sloppy about my grammar on the internet; I mean, why bother?) I don't believe the OP is a drooling stump. He probably has heard of decimal points, LOL. He simply didn't realize it wasn't ounces being registered. Sure, that should have been a given, but again...deciding he's a barely-functioning box of rocks may not be entirely fair. JMO.

  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,029 Member
    runnrchic wrote: »
    SergeantSausage wrote: »
    <boggle>

    Public education, folks: your tax dollars hard at work.

    Scary. Will I get social security when I retire in 35 years?
    Maybe .5 of it.

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