Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 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?
I've never heard of "pound" as a unit of mass. At least where I went to
school (Boston, MA), "pound" is the English unit of force, "slug" is the
(rarely used) English unit of mass, and "kilogram" is the SI unit of
mass. ("English" in this context does not refer to the charming isle at
the Western edge of Europe, but to the system of non-metric units used
by most Americans.)
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