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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 ;-))
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>Hi Thomas
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>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.
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>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.

Fast walkers, all of the Sachsen? I'd assume something between 3,6 and 4 km/h to be a walking speed.

And speaking of miles, I think it depends there as well - if you walk on land, 1,61 km; if you walk on water, 1,8 km, aka nautical mile. And these aren't the same as the british ones, even though they are called imperial units. And then a knot is not miles per hour, it's something else.