On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:39:05 -0500, Blattus Slafaly £ ¥ 0/00 wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Feb 28, 8:28 am, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:51:25 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03

wrote:

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A pound is 16 oz. Always was, probably always will be.
No it isn't. a pound of gold is only 12 ounces.

Jim

a pound of gold is only 12 ounces

Apples and bananas, sort of.

A troy pound of gold is 12 troy ounces, while an avoirdupois pound of
gold is 16 avoirdupois ounces, but gold is never measured in
avoirdupois ounces, so a pound of gold is indeed only 12 ounces. Damn
- I just made myself dizzy!

It's kind of like a dollar only equals a dollar if we are talking
about the currency of a single country. e.g. US$1.00 CAN$1.00

And a barrel of oil if 40 gallons instead of 55. We took a screwing on
that barrel.
Nope. It heen been 42 gallons since the late 1800's. That a barrel
for other purposes is 55 gallons is irrelevent.