Comment on The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 2 weeks agoMy understanding is that it was never required to sell things in metric, just to also include metric values. So you could still but a pound of bananas, but it had to also be labeled as 454g (or whatever a pound is in normal units).
bob_lemon@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The conversion rate depends on the type of pound. The imperial pound is indeed 454g, but the great British pound is actually 1.16€