On 13/02/2008, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -On [20080212 22:15], Dotan Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >Note that Google will give a calculator result for "1 kilogram in > >pounds", but not for "1 kilogram in inches". I wonder why not? After > >all, both are conversions of incompatible measurements, ie, they > >measure different things. > > > Eh? Last I checked both pound and kilogram are units of mass, so where is > the incompatibility? >
Pound is a unit of force. That's why people like to say that you will weigh 1/6th on the moon. If here you are 75 kilo, 165 pound, on the moon you should be 75 kilo, 28 pound. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
