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Dylan16807 on June 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: National IPv6 launch day in Finland

I've never heard of a slug in my life.

Pound by itself usually means mass, but it's interchangeable. Pound-force is a common term. Pound-mass can disambiguate.

8_hours_ago on June 9, 2015 [–]

Yes, that is what is most common these days. Unfortunately the "slug" unit never caught on, it's way more fun to say than "pound-mass".

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