Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on September 04, 2003 at 19:57:46 from 62.253.32.7 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: I thought you were metric in England posted by DavidShelton on September 04, 2003 at 10:58:31:
Shows how deeply this metrication has sunk into my consciousness. If you want to be precise one pound is 453.59237 grams.
All these enthusiasts for metrication seem to overlook how easy it is to get an answer that is ten times, or 100 times the correct one but still looks right. With Imperial measurements such errors are usually obvious.