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Originally Posted by Crazy1323
From the Weights and Measures Act of 1963 the yard shall be 0.9144 meter exactly and the pound shall be 0.45359237 kilogram exactly.
So while the pound predates the kilogram. The kilogram technically defines the pound now. And the kilogram is not longer a chunk of platinum in France.
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Yeah, so those are just conversions. The pound wasn't originally defined by a metric measure, but it does have a conversion factor...