How does 1Kn of force equal 100 kg in weight

Question

In the rope access industry everything is rated in kn of force. We can directly equate this to 100 kg when looking at working load limits on the slings in which we use to hang off of. Everyone always says you don’t need to know why, you just need to know that it does. I would like a simple way of explaining it to the new people coming into my industry.

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They match perfectly because one is based off of the other.

1 Newton is the weight that a 1-kilogram mass has in Earth gravity.

(That same 1 kg would only have about 0.377 Newtons of weight on Mars.)