Current use: The pound as a unit of weight is widely used in the United States, often for measuring body weight.
One pound of oranges costs 1.
After rounding off to two decimal places it is equal 2.
The kilogram was originally defined as the mass of one liter of water at its freezing point in 1794, but was eventually re-defined, since measuring the mass of a volume of water was imprecise and cumbersome.
There are more than one kind of pound but the most popular is avoirdupois pound.
Do you not know which formula pick to convert cost per kg to cost per lb? One of most known kind of dollar is also Canadian dollar.
The avoirdupois pound is used in everyday life, for instance, to measure food.
There is no descriptive definition as in the case of kilogram.