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Inacurate stones to pounds readings !? anyone else ....

lou1604
lou1604 Posts: 15
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have a converter app on my phone ...

This morning on my scales I weighed 10 st 11.4 lbs ... and I switched the function on the scales to lbs and it read 153lbs exactly.

If i put 153 lbs into a converter on my app or on internet this tells me I actually weight 10st 13 lbs?

Confusing or what ? why can't this app be in stones and lbs ?

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  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    There are 14 pounds in a stone. It's a fairly simple sum!
  • lou1604
    lou1604 Posts: 15
    well you would think so lol .. but these converters are clearly giving the wrong conversion rates.

    Surely 153lbs / 14 lbs = 10 stone 9 lbs ?? .. Why when I switched my scales into stones mode the reading was 10st 11 then ? - you would think it would be 10st 9lbs if i registerd at 153 exactly in the pounds mode?

    and the iphone converter tells me 153lb = 10.13 stones ??
  • M_lifts
    M_lifts Posts: 2,218 Member
    i would ignore the app and go with 1stone= 14 pounds
  • lou1604
    lou1604 Posts: 15
    yes i think i will !

    still does not explain the 10 st 11 versus 10 st 9 issue ? lol .... 153lbs = 10.9 stone right? I am not being thick am i ?
    Think i will record it at 10 st 11 though x
  • M_lifts
    M_lifts Posts: 2,218 Member
    yes i think i will !

    still does not explain the 10 st 11 versus 10 st 9 issue ? lol .... 153lbs = 10.9 stone right? I am not being thick am i ?
    Think i will record it at 10 st 11 though x

    yeah id go with 10st 11lbs and no u are not being thick!
  • abbyatkins
    abbyatkins Posts: 1 Member
    When you divide 153 by 14 the answer is 10.9 but this isn,t 9 pounds it is 9 tenths of a stone which is about 13 pounds and so 153 pounds is 10 stone 13 pounds. Hope this helps
  • butlersoft
    butlersoft Posts: 219 Member
    abbyatkins is correct ..... it is 10.9 stone (which isn't the same as 10 stone 9lb). ... basically - divide the pounds by 14 and take the whole number before the decimal point to get the full stones

    in this case : 153 / 14 = 10.928 .... just take the 10
    then ... 10 x 14lb = 140Ib for the 10 stone ... then add the difference between 153 and 140 to give the 13 lb


    Similarly - if you're 175lb - divide 175 by 14 = 12.5 (note - this DOES NOT MEAN 12 stone 5 pounds ... it's 12.5 stone). Again - take the whole number (12) ....
    then ... 12 x 14lb = 168 ........... then add the difference between the 175 and 168 to give 7lb. so ... it's 12st 7lb (which makes sense since 12 and a half stone is twelve lots of 14 pounds ... and an additional half stone (seven pounds).

    If there were 10 lb in a stone - your original maths would be correct as a "base 10" calculation...

    Consider hours and minutes (60 minutes in an hour = "base 60"). It's the equivalent of asking "how many hours in 150 minutes?"

    If we divide 150 by 60 - we get 2.5 . This doesn't mean it's 2 hours 5 minutes .... the same calculations apply as above ...
    take the whole number before the decimal (in this case - 2)
    2 x 60 = 120 mins
    then the difference between the 120 and the 150 is an additional "30 mins" (or 0.5 of an hour) ... so ... 150 mins = 2 hours 30 mins :-)

    lb and stone is a "base 14" calculation.
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    I find it helps to remember that 140 lb is 10 stone. So 153 lb is 13 more - ie 10 stone 13.
  • lou1604
    lou1604 Posts: 15
    thanks for your help xx i knew i wasnt being thick but instead of using a converter i shall stick to good old maths !
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