From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 16 13:55:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D8E337C127 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id WAA14066 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:55:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA62499 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:40:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Useful Metric Conversions Date: 16 Mar 2000 22:40:01 +0100 Message-ID: <8arkbh$1t0q$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000316182207.C235@parish> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Taylor 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message