you know the old trick question, "which is heavier, a hundred pounds of feathers or a hundred pounds of bricks"?

a neat variant is to ask between feathers or gold, because people will say they're the same but they actually aren't: the hundred pounds of feathers are heavier because gold is measured in (lighter) troy pounds

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why do we have different weight systems for precious metals and everything else anyway, is it just to cheat people into thinking they're getting more

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