Funts to Pounds (funt to lb)
1 funt (Russian pound) equals 0.9028308391 pounds (rounded).
How to convert funts to pounds
To convert funts to pounds, multiply the number of funts by 0.9028308391. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply pounds by 1.107627206 (rounded).
pounds = funts × 0.9028308391
Example: 10 funts = 9.028308391 pounds.
About these units
Funt (Russian Pound) (funt)
About 409.52 g (a little under 0.9 lb). The standard Russian pound until metrication.
Funt is the Russian cousin of the English pound, and its name shares the same Latin root as pound, German Pfund and Dutch pond. Before the metric system it was the basic unit from which every other Russian weight was built, so that zolotniks, lots and poods were all counted as parts or multiples of it.
The figure used here is 409.51718 g, about 14.445 ounces or 0.903 of an avoirdupois pound. Russian sources have long given slightly different decimals for the funt, because the standard was a physical weight and later conversions to metric were refined, so the last few digits vary between references.
One funt contains 96 zolotniks, and 40 funts make a pood. An apothecaries' funt was lighter, at 84 zolotniks. Imperial Russia began using the metric system in 1899 and made it compulsory in 1918, and the funt gradually disappeared from shops.
1 funt (Russian pound) = 0.40951718 kilograms (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Funt (mass); Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement
Pound (lb)
Exactly 0.45359237 kg, divided into 16 ounces. The standard unit of weight in the US and common in the UK.
Why is pound abbreviated lb? The answer is Roman. The English word comes from the Latin libra pondo, roughly the weight measured in libra, and the symbol keeps the first word. The Roman libra was divided into 12 unciae. The avoirdupois pound of 16 ounces came into general use around 1300 and was initially equal to 6,992 troy grains; under Elizabeth I it was redefined as 7,000 grains. The UK's Weights and Measures Act 1878 set the imperial standard pound as a platinum cylinder, and the troy pound was abolished for trade the following year.
Today the pound is defined from the kilogram. The International Yard and Pound Agreement of 1959 fixed it at exactly 0.45359237 kg, and the UK's Weights and Measures Act 1963 wrote the same figure into law. Pounds remain the everyday unit for body weight, groceries and shipping in the United States and are widely used in the UK. The word also survives in odd places: a six-pounder cannon was named for the weight of its shot, not its own.
1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pound (mass); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)
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