Actually, guys, if you care to check 'way, 'way back to when the pound first was standardised at its present weight, you will find that it was 7,000 actual GRAINS of grain. Same thing, an inch originally was "3 well-dried barley-corns, laid end to end".
There have been all kinds of pounds at one time or another: Roman, Carolingian, Tower, Troy and so forth. The one we have today replaced all of those except the Troy pound, which still is used for gold and silver and has 20 pennyweights of 24 grains each which is 480 grains to the ounce, 12 ounces to the pound. OUR pound, properly called a pound avoirdupois, has 16 ounces each of 437.5 grains.
That silly long-drawn-out decimal answer likely was arrived at by dividing 7000 into 1 and is only a decimal approximation. I could just as well point out that it is approximately 600000000 millimetres from Winnipeg to Regina!
A REAL POUND is 7000 grains, pure and simple.
Ain't it just GREAT that the grain is the same for all of them?
We had standardised weights and measures more than 1200 years ago. So much for metric!
