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> Wonder why the person that wrote the Wikipedia article changed it up when it is supposed to be a direct quote.

They likely changed it from lb to kg because that would be more friendly to an international audience, without realizing that lb is a measure of weight and kg is a measure of mass. Therefore they didn't know to change "weight" to "mass".




I have been to the US quite regularly, and been living in the UK for a number of years, and I have never seen someone using pounds as a unit of force instead of a unit of mass meaning roughly 500g, give or take. Second meaning was about 1.20€.

FWIW, the pound is a proper unit of mass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) .


I'm a civil engineer. In statute terms pound is the unit of force and slug is the unit of mass. That might have colored my thinking.


Oh yes, that would make sense.




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