Gram Weights

[Richard Brekne]

blaine.hebert@att.net wrote:

> I put away my set of gram weights because they were somewhat incomprehensible.
> Instead of the weights I now use a stack of nickles.  It seems that the US
> government did something right when they designed the US nickle to weigh
> exactly 5 grams.  50 cents weighs 50 grams.
>
> Nickles are much less intimidating to customers and I doubt that anyone can
> reliably tell the difference between +- 5 grams.
>

You would doubt incorrectly. This is pretty well documented. It begins to get ify
a lot closer to +/- 1 gram.

RicB


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