Where does the abreviation for the English pound, LB, come from?
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short for libra which means weight in spanish its also were they get the name for the zodiac sign libra which singifies the scale
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The pound was originally the value of one pound (weight) of sterling silver (hence "pound sterling"). The sign for the pound is the pound sign, £ (or rarely just "L"). The pound sign is derived from the original black-letter "L", as the original duodecimal currency system (pounds, shillings and pence) used the abbreviation 'LSD' (librae, solidi, denarii), libra being the Latin word for "pound". The ISO 4217 currency code is GBP (Great Britain Pound). \n\nSo actually both L and P are used.  £ is used most everywhere, but banks and other financial institutions use the GBP abbreviation (saving having to use special characters).\n\nAnd regarding the question of the symbol for U.S. Dollars ($) the sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre. The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.\n\nThe sign's ultimate origins are not certain. The most widely accepted explanation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is that "$" is a corruption of the letters "PS" or "Ps" (for 'peso' or 'piastre' - especially the former, as each letter could represent each syllable of "Pé-So") written over each other in Spanish. Eventually, the 'P' was reduced to a vertical line.\n\nThe ISO currency code for U.S. Dollars is USD (again to avoid special characters).
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stone (st) \na traditional British unit of weight, rarely used in the U.S. Originally the stone varied in size, both from place to place and according to the nature of the item being weighed. A stone of sugar was traditionally 8 pounds, while a stone of wool could be as much as 24 pounds. Eventually the stone was standardized at 14 pounds avoirdupois or approximately 6.350 29 kilograms -- a convenient size because it makes the stone equal to exactly 1/2 quarter or 1/8 hundredweight. Today the stone is used mostly for stating the weight of persons or animals. No -s is added for the plural.\n\nfortnight \na traditional English unit of time equal to 2 weeks or 14 days. The word, a contraction of "fourteen nights," has been used since at least the 1100s.
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some background:\n1866\n    The use of the metric system made legal (but not mandatory) in the United States by the (Kasson) Metric Act of 1866 (Public Law 39-183). This law also made it unlawful to refuse to trade or deal in metric quantities.\n1893\n    ..... metric prototypes were declared "fundamental standards of length and mass" in the Mendenhall Order. Since that date, the yard, pound, etc. have been officially defined in terms of the metric system.\n\nThis timeline, and more, can be found at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/dates.htm\n\nOur common units of miles, pounds and degrees fahrenheit are defined metricly. But still it's not how we in the U.S. think.\n\nWikipedia says:\n"Only France, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan have seen significant popular opposition to metrication, the main objections being based on tradition, aesthetics, economical impact and distaste for measures viewed as foreign."\n\nIt's the imp of the perverse.
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Saturday, November 4, 2006 \n\n600 British Pound = 1,143.72 US Dollar
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It's believed to have been abreviated from Oll Korrect, used in Boston newspapers during the 1800's, as a deliberate misspelling of All Correct.\n\nApparently they liked using abbreviations apparently.
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In British usage, it derives from Far East, specifically Chinese, pidgin; it came to UK by way of the Merchant Service, reinforced by the R(oyal) N(avy). . . . It is in fact a literal translation of a very common Chinese greeting, 'hao jiu mei jian.'\n: The American. use of the phrase probably comes from the same source but has been strongly influenced by two or three very widely distributed popular anecdotes. . . . The oldest printed record  of it is afforded by Harry C. Witwer's 'Love and Learn,' 1924 (p. 73). The US currency goes back to the late 19th century as  judged  by the fact that the 'OED New Supp.' can cite a Red Indian as saying 'Long time no see you'. . . . There have been Chinese living and working up and down the West Coast of North America since the Gold Rush days of mid 19th century, and before."
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When - in the UK - we had proper money instead of the Monopoly money we had foisted on us at decimalization, the abbreviations for pounds, shillings and pence were £ s d.  £ is a sort of L, and stood for Libera, s was solidii, and d was denarii, all terms of Roman monetary unit, I believe.  But we also had lb, meaning a pound weight rather than a monetary pound, and the b was added to the L to denote the difference.
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Northern Ireland and Scotand are component states of the UK and use the British pound sterling.\nMonaco was using the French franc and switched to the Euro when France did. (San Marino and the Vatican were using the Italian lira and switched to the Euro when Italy did. Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican all strike their own Euro-denominated coins.)\nLiechtenstein uses the Swiss franc.
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The error is in the translation between Kg to Lb. I believe the source you are viewing is in error just like you found. \nThere are 2.2 lb to a kg, therefore the source you read is in error. \nHey! not always what is in script is accurate. That's why many Math/Engineering/Science text books have 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions. \nReaders like yourself write to the editor/author of the book and suggest corrections.\n\nI've taken a college class where the professor used his class to find the typo's in text books.
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1 pound = 4.4475 newtons
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This question is miscategorized.\n\nSpecial Education refers to the education and parenting of children with special needs.\n\nThat being said... the metric system (e.g. kilograms, meters, etc.) was introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte in the early 1800's, because he wanted a standard set of weights and measures throughout his empire.\n\nThe English system (lbs, oz, inches, etc.) evolved during the Middle Ages based on common items used for measuring. For instance, the "inch" was originally based on the practice of using from the tip to the first joint of the thumb as a measure for small items.
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There are 490 banknotes to a pound.  There are 454 grams in a pound, so one one note would weight slightly less than a gram (0.926530612 grams or 926.5 milligrams)
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hold the pound sign...
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When animals were grazed on common land, sometimes they strayed into the villages, so they would be rounded up and put onto a piece of fenced-in land called a pound until their owners came to find them. \n\nMy Gran lived in a little village in Wiltshire. Her cottage was called Pound Cottage, and it was next door to the village pound.
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1:1.95\n\nthe " : " is a ratio meaning, from math class.\n\nLike a 1:1 ratio...or a 1 to 1 ratio.\n\n1:1.95 means 1 sterling pound is = to 1.95 in US money.\n\nSo that means 7.50 sterlings x 1.95 US = US price
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Explain that pounds are divided into smaller parts called ounces and 16 ounces equal a pound.\n\nu'll get more help here:\nhttp://www.math.com/parents/articles/grocerymath.html