Grant Edwards wrote: > A slug is 14.593903 kg according to the trysty old Unix "units" > program. Hmm, I always thought a slug weighed exactly 32 lbs, > but I see it's 32.174049. Learn something new every day...
It's defined so that 1 slug times the acceleration due to gravity is a pound. The acceleration due to gravity is only approximately 32 ft/s^2, so you were just remembering the short-hand approximation for 1 gee. Let's hear it for incoherent unit systems ... -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make deserts bloom. -- Adlai Stevenson, 1952 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
