Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-02-13, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> 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, > > Back in the day, I was once working on a fire control system > for the Navy. All the units in the calculations were purely > metric except for one: air density was in slugs/m3. I always > suspected that was somebody's attempt at humor.
So what is the mass of a slug, anyway? (I assume this is slug as in bullet, not slimy, creeping thing.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
