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A novelty American football game was attempted in metric units in 1977, [100] although the concept failed to gain acceptance. Bicycles, especially at the high end, are increasingly being sold and sized in metric units. [citation needed] For example, a frame described as "21 inch" size in the past is now often labeled as a "53 cm" frame instead.
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The avoirdupois pound is legally defined as a measure of mass, [25] but the name pound is also applied to measures of force. For instance, in many contexts, the pound avoirdupois is used as a unit of mass, but in some contexts, the term "pound" is used to refer to "pound-force". The slug is another unit of mass derived from pound-force.
Its value differs between the United States customary and British imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the short and long hundredweight and in British English as the cental and imperial hundredweight. The short hundredweight or cental of 100 pounds (45.36 kg) is defined in the United States customary system. [1]
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