>> Don't you think it would be better to refer to hammer weight in units of >> weight rather than units of mass? >> >> Dan Squire >> U of H >> >What's the difference? Is the gram a unit of weight or of mass? And >what would be a unit of the other? > According to my electronic dictionary (and my other ones as well, I guess), a gram is defined as "a metric unit of mass and weight equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram". From the Greek "gramma", meaning a small weight. That's funny, I always thought "gramma" was my mother's mother. Oh well... Regards, Tom Seay t.seay@mail.utexas.edu The University of Texas at Austin
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