A British hundredweight

A British hundredweight computes by formula from two of the three multi-dimensional centers stemming from the three by three magic square. Once you know how compute the hidden centers, a hundred weight by number (112) “magically”. Formula and internal link for help are given below.

hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass. Its value differs between the US and British imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the “short” and “long” hundredweight and in British English as the “cental” and the “imperial hundredweight”.

• The short hundredweight or cental of 100 pounds (45.36 kg) is used in the United States.^[1]
• The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the imperial system.^[2]

Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a “short ton” of 2,000 pounds and a “long ton” of 2,240 pounds.

The hundredweight has had many values. In England in around 1300 different hundreds (centum in Medieval Latin) were defined. The Weights and Measures Act 1835 formally established the present imperial hundredweight of 112 lb.

The United States and Canada came to use the term “hundredweight” to refer to a unit of 100 lb. This measure was specifically banned from British use—upon risk of being sued for fraud—by the Weights and Measures Act 1824 but in 1879 the measure was legalised under the name “cental” in response to legislative pressure from British merchants importing wheat and tobacco from the United States.^[3]

Formula for computing the one hundred and twelve pound British hundredweight based on three centers of fives: (Center one + center three/ center one) 0r C1 + C3/ C1 translated to numbers becomes 5 + 555/ 5 = 112. Yields numbers of the numbers of the British hundredweight.

Internal link for background on the code: Uncertain Identity