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>>A metric pound is half a kg? But it's marked as deprecated for ages.
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>Lutz, IIRC american pound # 0.5KG, so do not translate it to colloquial german "Pfund", but think .45 -
>or a heavyweight boxers mass at first sight looks more intimidating by ~10% if you read it in american lb ;-))

Hi Thomas

I'm just kidding. I'm familiar with the problems. It's only that the OP might asume something and I just like to point out that a pound is not a pound everywhere.

They never get it right, even a mile is to short. Half a mile is the walking distance of a hours walk. At least in saxony. A mile is 9062 m.

Have a nice weekend