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The Empire is Responsible for the Imperial System
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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My 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).
The conversion rate depends on the type of pound. The imperial pound is indeed 454g, but the great British pound is actually 1.16€
"pound sterling" vs "pound sand"