Curt Fischer wrote:


> According to every technical book I have ever used, the pound is a unit
> of force.  Ergo, pounds measure weight. 

Strangely enough, that 1893 measure specifically defined a pound as a
unit of mass. So far as I can tell, pounds legally measure mass, but
scientifically measure weight. Something like that old UL about pi being
equal to 3 in Indiana.

KWW