The pound and kilogramme were brought together to find a conversion factor.
You're not honestly saying that after this the pound became "metric"?
That's as silly as me saying that from now on the kg is imperial!
Remember if X=Y then Y=X.
Just a thought, why didn't they say "Hey we're gonna make the pound a metric
measure so while we're doing it lets make it 454g exactly and not muck about
with all that precision, no-one will know" ?
From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33650] Re: metric system in u k
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:46:52 +1000
on 2005-07-21 04.24, Philip S Hall at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> The pound in the UK is a legally defined unit - equal to 454g
>
> Actually it's 453.59237 g
Dear Phil,
We often forget that this definition of the pound in the UK is based on the
metric gram that, in turn, is based on the kilogram kept at Le Sevres.
There
is no other definition of a pound.
As you quite rightly point out, a pound is a truly metric measure (of
453.59237 g) that is often dumbed down to the word 'pound' presumably for
reasons of obfuscation.
In my opinion the use of pound does little to promote honest and fair
trading.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
61 3 5241 2008
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