Weight measures (was Re: [LMB] Miles's exact height?)

[Mark Allums]

Kalina Varbanova wrote:
  > OK, now I got completely confused. Here is an exerpt of a photo
> caption, taken from www.reuters.co.uk: The four-day-old baby girl
> weighs 7 pounds and 450 grams.
> 
> Imperial + metric, in the same sentence? Ouch...

I, too, am confused, because one pound equal appx. 454 grams, if I 
recall correctly.  I would have said the baby weighs right at eight pounds.

--Mark Allums