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[-] blujan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

It's 1 Newton at 1 meter.

As simple as 1 pound at 1 feet to be fair, the bad part is that pound is used as a measure of force as well as of mass. It works on the surface of the earth but not anywhere else.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Pounds are a measure of force, not mass. The imperial unit for mass is Slugs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(unit)

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder what you’ll get when you ask for 0.02 slugs of ham at a butcher's. Probably nothing but a horrified look.

[-] blujan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but I mean everyone uses it as a measure of mass.

To be fair there exists a mass unit called pound mass, as opposed to pound force.

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