[tlhIngan Hol] weight of cheb

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 09:18:12 PDT 2020


On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 15:38, Alan Anderson <qunchuy at alcaco.net> wrote:

> The only confusion is in the minds of people who were indoctrinated by
> overzealous physics teachers in high school. The legal definition of a
> pound *is* a mass.
>

What's confusing are the words "around five pounds (2.25 kg or so)". By the
legal definition, 5 lb is 2.26796185 kg. Is that "2.25" just a round value
(like "five" is)? Or is this an example of Klingons being sometimes
inaccurate, but never approximate?

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De'vID
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