Time for us to go back to school. Lb Foot is not a measure of pressure, it needs to act on area to be a measure of pressure. Lbs / square foot/ PSI etc. are common measurements of pressure (tires etc.).
In the 60's we were taught poundals as a measure of force, ie the force required to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second. Thankfully SI came to the rescue by the time I went to college. Isaac Newton, quintessentially English gets an SI unit, as does Faraday, Tesla, Curie. Very multicultural... On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 12:44 PM Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > And the metric equivalent is Newton Meters. You can get torque > wrenches in either measurement, I would think some have both. Some > bolts will fail if too loose or too tight. > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 7:31 PM Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Foot pounds is a measure of pressure > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > > > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 5:29 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These > Years? > > > > > > Yes, and whyat is lbf? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mason.gmu.edu/*smetz3__;fg!!JmPEg > > > BY0HMszNaDT!78SA9VzAdbjMTRYvnKQIT6jc0VOHrKWRan9aUIqsjvsI210oVzT > > > j6BY-5Ot12g$ > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on > > > behalf of Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 8:26 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These > Years? > > > > > > Actually, the pound is a unit of force in English units. I believe > weight is > > > measured in stones. > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > > > > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:23 PM > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These > Years? > > > > > > > > You have the same mass versus weight issue with pound. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > > > > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://mason.gmu.edu/*smetz3__;fg!!JmPEg > > > > > > > BY0HMszNaDT!6qfIOAdssnfWNb9bnHdVr6MfJemAcckz1N2FLwezCZtDcak8bJ > > > > a3JHuDBIGmlQ$ > > > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > > > 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 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. 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