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Date:      16 Mar 2000 22:40:01 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Useful Metric Conversions
Message-ID:  <8arkbh$1t0q$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <20000316182207.C235@parish> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003161417340.57499-100000@peloton.runet.edu>

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Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> wrote:

> 454 grams to the pound (roughly).  Why you'd compare a mass to a weight is
> anyone's guess, but that's probably just the physics in me talking.  :-)

Pound is variously defined as weight *or* mass, with slug or
pound-force as the other one, respectively.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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