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What is this metric shit? I'm an American! I measure weight in American units like the hundredweight and the truss and the slug!
I don't know what a hundredweight is, but I'm just guessing based on American experience that it's a unit of volume equal to 132 quarts.
1 hundredweight = (1 qt * 32) + 100.7, of course. It’s very intuitive.