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I, too, went thru life (about > 50 years) thinking the pound was a
unit of force. It is not, as pointed out by JD recently.
https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/archives/1999/10_1999/msg00645.html
"For what it's worth" Wiki. agrees w/ me also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-mass
bc, disabused.
On 2008, Nov 04, , at 10:25, Rick Tarara wrote:
The technically
incorrect 2.2 lbs = 1 kg (formally the weight of 1 kg is 2.2 lbs)
works
fine.
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