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[Baptiste Cecconi]

Nice peace of imperial folklore ! :-)

Let's quote an ancient french popular icon, Obelix:
"Ils sont fous ces Bretons !"

Baptiste

Le 26 juil. 2013 à 15:44, Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> a écrit :

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> Kirk, hello.
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> On 2013 Jul 26, at 13:22, Kirk D Borne <kborne at gmu.edu> wrote:
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>> Hey Norman!  That's an old school puzzle (for us old guys). :)  The pound of feathers weighs more because gold is measured in Troy pounds = 12 troy ounces, which is approx. 13 ounces avdp.  A pound of feathers weighs 16 oz avdp.  :)
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> Confound you, sir!  You have exhausted my supply of imperial metrological arcana.  Not _the_ supply, mind, but all the ones I can remember.
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> All the best,
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> Norman
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