You have the same mass versus weight issue with pound.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Thigpen [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years? See! SI is a "FANTASTIC" improvement over old stuff. It's all standardized and everyone talks in the same way. (NOT!) Thank you France. Vive la pound, and inch, and mile... (This post was posted with sarcastic mode set to "on".) Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 7/22/20 5:58 PM: > On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:05:29 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> I took me a while before I realized that, of course, kg is a unit of mass, >> not of weight; you weigh tings in kilogram-force (kgf or kgF). >> > Which of the following would you envision and welcome as an idiomatic > alternative?: > o ... how many kg I mass? > o ... how many kgF I weigh? > o Other (specify)? > > Should an outfitter sell climbing ropes rated in Newtons? > > (BTW, what's the SI unit of Specific Impulse? And the formula for ∆v? Ugh!) > >> ________________________________________ >> From: Jackson, Rob >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:21 PM >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bob Bridges >> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:16 PM >> >> [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening >> attachments.] >> >> ... I'd have to calculate to tell you how many kg I weigh. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
