On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:14:09 GMT, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:41:10 GMT, Gene Nygaard
wrote:
Do you think I'm that stupid, that you can pull the wool over
my eyes so easily?

Hi Gene,

As I pointed out earlier, your feelings belong at the end of the line
with the rest whose minds I cannot change.

I proved you wrong, from the NIST site--your groundrules--and from
many other sources as well. I gave you a web page from NIST defining
the pound as a unit of mass exactly equal to 0.45359237 kg.

Now I have a challenge for you, Mr. Metrologist:

Show me an official definition of a pound force on the NIST pages.
Bet you can't do so. Note that a conditional definition, with a big
"if", indicating that this is only one possible acceptable definition,
is not sufficient--I want an official definition.

If you can't do that, try a broader problem: Show me an official
definition of a pound as a unit of force from ANY law of ANY country
in the world, or from ANY standard of ANY national or international
standards organization, or from ANY standard of ANY professional
organization.

Are you up to the challenge?

Gene Nygaard
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gene_Nygaard/