Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics

Re:Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics by kergonath on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:09AM (#28769753)

I have been to the US quite regularly, and been living in the UK for a number of years, and I have never seen someone using pounds as a unit of force instead of a unit of mass meaning roughly 500g, give or take. Second meaning was about 1.20€.

FWIW, the pound is a proper unit of mass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass) .

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Re:Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics by syncsynchalt on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:58AM (#28773926)

I'm a civil engineer. In statute terms pound is the unit of force and slug is the unit of mass. That might have colored my thinking.

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