Pounds to Seers (lb to seer)

1 pound equals 0.4861111111 seers (rounded).

1 pound = 0.4861111111 seers

How to convert pounds to seers

To convert pounds to seers, multiply the number of pounds by 0.4861111111. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply seers by 2.057142857 (rounded).

seers = pounds × 0.4861111111

Example: 10 pounds = 4.861111111 seers.

About these units

Pound (lb)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

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)

Seer (seer)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

80 tolas, about 933 g. A traditional South Asian measure of grain and other goods.

Over large parts of Asia the seer served as the everyday grocer's weight, used for rice, wheat, ghee and similar goods, and in some places also as a measure of volume. Under the Mughals a seer was 30 dams and 40 seers made a maund. Each British presidency later kept its own version. Bengal reckoned the seer as 16 chitaks of 5 tolas, which is 80 tolas.

The government seer of British India comes to about 0.93310 kg, the figure used here, and the same value survives in Pakistan, Nepal and Aden. After independence India's Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1956 set the seer at 1.25 kg instead, and then metric weights replaced it. Other values are far apart: Afghanistan uses about 7.066 kg, Iran has a metric seer of 75 g and a sihr of 160 g, and in Sri Lanka the seer is a capacity of about 1.06 L. The word seer must therefore always be tied to a place and date.

1 seer = 0.933104304 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Seer (unit); Wikipedia: Tola (unit)

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