> how many ounces are in a pound it really doesn't help that you being non-american, could conceivably be talking about any one of about 20 different 'pounds'.

> how many ounces are in a pound it really doesn't help that you being non-american, could conceivably be talking about any one of about 20 different 'pounds'. America itself only uses the avoirdupois pound, but if you thrown internationalism into the mix, it could be a troy pound, an ISP or a non-US avoirdupois pound, maybe we're even talking about a russian pound... and that's all before we get to pound-mass vs pound-weight/pound-force here, let wikipedia muddy the waters even more for us: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Comparison_of_pounds.svg/700px-Comparison_of_pounds.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Co...