[michaelmcdonald]

For those wondering like me:

6000 metric tons of silver is approximately 192,904,200 troy ounces, and 6000 US tons of silver is approximately 175,000,000 troy ounces.

[mads]

There is a US ton? My God...

[hansvm]

To be perfectly fair, it was a little strange for the metric system to have a "ton" unit in the first place. Much like a foot or a cup, it's one of those units the metric system is trying to replace, but rather than use megagrams or something else perfectly sensible within the system they already created, they added to the confusion by defining yet another "ton" close enough to the historical units of the same name.

[wtfmcgrill]

There's the metric tonne 1000kg, the US short ton 2000lbs and the US long ton 2240lbs(1016kg) also known as imperial ton. I started calling the metric tonne a megagram because I got tired of trying to figure out if it was short, long or metric I was dealing with

[RichardCA]

This is from a web site that's been around since the Web 1.0 era: https://www.ibiblio.org/units/dictT.html#ton

[fargle]

oh there is a short ton, a long ton, a metric ton. the normal ton in the US is "short ton" which is 2,000 lbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton

we also often encounter a "f*ck ton" or even a "metric f*ck ton". these are usually informal units related to the number of things (especially annoying things) rather than strictly weight.

[lobsterthief]

Yes, many of us Americans wish we would adopt the metric system.

[dghf]

And an imperial ton, which is different again.

[Gupie]

$30.59 per ounce (current)