Additional Unit of Measure

I have my base unit of measure set as EA and in the additional unit of measure I'm trying to put a conversation to state that 1 EA = 165838 KG
The system wouldn't allow that since the this field in the table only accepts 5 characters and 0 dec. (it also saves the digits in x,xxx format which means I can only give 4 digits).
Is there anything to do to fix this? I can't store in Ton because it won't be accurate.
Thank you

Ideally your base unit should be the smallest unit or a small unit. In this case KG should have been the base unit.
However, if you still wish to continue...
try using 500 EA = 82919 TON (This is exact if 1 TON = 1000 KG)
If it is not allowing 5 digits, and you are willing to have a minor approximation, you can use
50 EA = 8292 TON. At 1 TON = 1000 KG, this works out to 1 EA = 165840 KG (A difference of 2 KG from actual figure).
Hope this helps,
Lakshman
P.S. Dear Srao, changing the number of decimals in currencies and Units of measures is not recommended.

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