A lb is also an imperial measure of force... roughly 250th of a kN...
Is this nerdy enough? Quoting Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
A little nerdy Friday amusement... I saw an article about "Mystery of dolphins' speed solved" on BBC News. There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in "kilograms". I wrote a little email ... COMMENTS: Whoever wrote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7748754.stm must have failed basic science. "kg" is a measure of mass, but the story uses "kg" as a measure of force. Force is measured in Newtons (N)! I got a nice email back this morning saying Many thanks for alerting us. This error has now been corrected. So, I went to have a look .. and they have changed "kg" to the imperial mass measure, lbs, and added "of force". --- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
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