<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 09:30, Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
<br>
I know that {cheb} is defined as "roughly 5 lbs" in Okrand's Usenet<br>
message. And the BoP poster mentions the weight of {cheb'a'} in the<br>
following relationship:<br>
<br>
375,000 cheb'a' = 8.7 KT<br>
<br>
I remember reading that 1 {cheb'a'} might be 9 {cheb}, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is commonly assumed that a {cheb'a'} is 9 {cheb}, but Dr. Okrand did not explicitly state this. He only said that "most units" of measure had forms with {-'a'} added to mean 9 times. The report of that conversation is here:</div><div><a href="https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1999/February/msg00061.html">https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1999/February/msg00061.html</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">but no matter<br>
what I calculate, I don't get it – so where's my error?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You are most certainly using the wrong definition of "KT". If you use an American "short" ton and assume a factor of 9, you get:</div><div><br></div><div>8.7 KT = 8.7 × 1000 × 2000 lb = 17,400,000 lb = 375,000 × 46.4 lb = 375,000 × 9 × 5.156 lb (2.339 kg)</div><div><br></div><div>This is close to the stated value of "around five pounds (2.25 kg or so)". If you go in the other direction, assuming a value of 5 lbs:</div><div><br></div><div>375,000 × 9 × 5 lb = 16875000 lb = 8.43 KT</div><div><br></div><div>Or if you start with the given value in kg:</div><div>375,000 × 9 × 2.25 kg = 7593750 kg = 16741353 lb = 8.37 KT<br></div><div><br></div><div>These are within a few percent of the stated value of 8.7 KT. Presumably, the difference is between the gravity on Qo'noS and the gravity on Earth, since "pounds" are a unit of weight, not mass. The original msn message in which {cheb} appears refers to it as a unit of weight, but gives a conversion to kg (but presumably under Earth or near-Earth gravity).</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-10-22-news.txt">http://klingonska.org/canon/1997-10-22-news.txt</a><br></div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>