TimeSpaceLightForce Posted February 21, 2015 Report Share Posted February 21, 2015 In words..how many quarter of stone are there in a grain of dram? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 1gram = 27.334 grains. A quarter stone is 14/4 = 3.5 pounds avoirdupois = 1587.6 g. How do we interpret a "grain of dram"? "Of" generally means "multiply" but here it must mean divide, yielding a dimensionless ratio.. But which way? Is it 27.334 or is it 0.0366? One way, the answer could be 43395.4584g = 43.3954584kg The other way it could be 58.1062g. Or the answer could be good old 42. Or, this whole thing could be ... a riddle. Interesting question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TimeSpaceLightForce Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) A riddle nay. A quarter is not a fourth not even a coin nor it is a room.. A dram is not a gram or a type of memory access that is random.. Edited February 26, 2015 by TimeSpaceLightForce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DejMar Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Spoiler Quarter is given to be not a portion of the measure or that which is measured, thus it is the measurement, and subsequently, the stone is the material being measured. A quarter is 28 pounds weight, which is approximately 196000 grains. A dram can be anything small, which in this case is the substance of stone. One grain is 1/196000 quarter of stone, and can be said to literally be a grain of sand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TimeSpaceLightForce Posted January 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 Hint: quarter,stone,grain and dram are not S.I. units.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Wilson Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Workink off a dram, got to purge. Anything to do with.... hominy grits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted January 29, 2016 Report Share Posted January 29, 2016 On 1/6/2016 at 0:06 PM, TimeSpaceLightForce said: Hint: quarter,stone,grain and dram are not S.I. units.. Are you saying they're not measurement units at all? Or just that they are not SI (rationalized MKS) units of measurement in particular? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 TimeSpaceLightForce Posted January 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Spoiler I am saying they're all English units of measurements.. from your previous post it right to say half of a third is one sixth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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