Am 29.10.2020 um 03:01 schrieb De'vID:
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: https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1999/February/msg00061.html
^ ^ ^ ^ This is exactly the kind of answer I needed. Thanks!
You are most certainly using the wrong definition of "KT".
That's what I had assumed. I still keep believing that international standards have reached the entire world. ;-)
If you use an American "short" ton and assume a factor of 9, you get:
Thanks for calculating this for me. I had tried all of those ways and came to the same result, but my "internal Sheldon" did not accept such a large difference.
Presumably, the difference is between the gravity on Qo'noS and the gravity on Earth, since "pounds" are a unit of weight, not mass.
Oh yes, people keep mixing these up all the time. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/Measurements