pounds

[Chuck Britton <britton@odie.ncssm.edu>]

> To help confuse the issue let me point out that according to the NIST's
> Special Publication 811 the avoirdupois pound is defined to be *exactly*
> 0.45359237 kg of *mass*.  A 1 pound force (lbf) is the weight of a
> 1 lb mass in a standard gravitational field.  *If* this standard field
> strength is taken as the 'official' value of 9.80665 m/s^2 then a 1 lbf
> corresponds to *exactly* 4.44482216152605 N of force.
>
> David Bowman
> dbowman@georgetowncollege.edu

David, thanks for providing the 'Official Word' and the documentation thereof.

So the word pound officially means both 'force' AND 'mass'!

Eventually, even the United States will be dragged, kicking and screaming,
into the (metric) 18th Century!

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