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[-] Zanz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

A pound at one gravity is equivalent to 2.2 kg at 1 gravity. Outside of aerospace there's not really a need to distinguish between mass and weight so it kind of gets used interchangeably.

It just bothers me when people complain about units and then use the wrong kind of unit.

[-] explore_broaden@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

My point is that in common use a pound does refer to mass (not weight). For example the US Code defines that 1 pound = 0.453 592 37 kilogram. See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass).

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