Grams to Hundredweight (UK) (g to cwt (UK))

1 gram equals 0.00001968413055 hundredweight (UK) (rounded).

1 gram = 0.00001968413055 hundredweight (UK)

How to convert grams to hundredweight (UK)

To convert grams to hundredweight (UK), multiply the number of grams by 0.00001968413055. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hundredweight (UK) by 50,802.34544.

hundredweight (UK) = grams × 0.00001968413055

Example: 10 grams = 0.0001968413055 hundredweight (UK).

About these units

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

Hundredweight (UK) (cwt (UK))

Imperial (British)Traditional unit (still used in some regions)

112 pounds (50.80 kg), eight stone. Twenty of them make a long ton.

Hundredweight, abbreviated cwt, comes from the medieval Latin centum for a hundred, though the English hundred around 1300 varied in size. The Weights and Measures Act 1835 fixed the imperial unit at 112 pounds, which is 8 stone, or about 50.80 kilograms. NIST gives the factor as 50.80235 kilograms and does not mark it as exact.

A rival 100 pound version crossed the Atlantic and was used in the United States and Canada. Britain banned it in 1824 over fraud fears, then legalised it in 1879 as the cental after merchants importing American wheat and tobacco pressed for it. Twenty long hundredweight make a 2,240 pound ton. The unit measured cattle, fodder, fertiliser and coal, and old anvils and church bells carry weights stamped in hundredweight, quarters and pounds. Guernsey and older van and truck ratings still use it.

1 hundredweight (UK) = 50.80234544 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hundredweight; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8 conversion factors

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