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Re: Units and Conversions

Technically
when you go from LB to kg you are not just doing a conversion
of units, so
it should be a separate topic.


One could make a pretty good technical arguement that you are just
converting units. But I certainly wouldn't make such an arguement to Tina's
beginning class.

The arguement would involve such issues as the number of fundamental
physical dimensions and therefore base units being arbitrary in any system
of units, etc.

Joel Rauber