I think you have this wrong. 2.2 pounds to a kilo. I checked
http://www.eardc.swt.edu/ucon/ucon.html
to make sure. I think you have this exactly opposite.
Ted Peterson
EW/SOE
----- Original Message -----
From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [compost_tea] Re: Some Numbers and Metabolites
In a message dated 11/1/2004 11:59:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, kirkleon_at_=
open.org writes:
Is 20 kg compost to 10 pounds a typo? I can imagine 20 liters of compo=
st
being 10 pounds, but 20 kg is 44 pounds last I checked... I dislike cha=
sing
numbers but this confuses me.
One kg is less than a pound. 1 pound is the same as 2.21 kg.
Or you can multiply the number of kg you have by 0.45 to get pounds.
Aren't conversions fun? Drives me crazy. I always have to have someone =
double check my math, and even then, I'm not always really positive I got i=
t right. But, I can check myself by thinking about hte fact that a pound i=
s much more than a kg, as long as you aren't changing materials.
Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa
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