Even Great Britain is the homeland of such unit of measure as pound, for quite some time now passed to the metric system of measures. However continue to measure weight in pounds still in the USA. Transfer of the weight expressed in kilograms to pounds can be required, for example, for drawing up technical documentation on export products.
Instruction
1. To transfer the weight expressed in kilograms to pounds manually, increase it by 2.2046 in mind, a column or on the calculator.
2. In the spreadsheet made in OpenOffice.org Calc, Gnumeric or Microsoft Office of Excel it is possible to organize machine translation of value of weight from kilograms in pounds. For example, if in a cell under name A1 there is a value of weight in kilograms, and under name B1 it is necessary to place value of the same weight in pounds in a cell, in the last it is necessary to write down the following expression: = A1*2.2046. If you established the English version of any of these office packages, replace a comma with a point. Now it is worth changing value of weight in kilograms in A1 cell - and in B1 cell also the result of the translation immediately will change. It is convenient to use this method in case you export the products to various countries of the world and therefore weight has to be specified in documentation both in kilograms, and in pounds.
3. It is possible to make machine translation of kilograms in pounds and by means of the special websites. Them exists very much, and it is possible to find them, having entered into the search engine the line ""online unit converter"" (without quotes). Some of such websites are compatible also to browsers of mobile phones.
4. However to spend GPRS traffic every time when it is necessary to make a transfer of units of measure, it is irrational. Therefore if the mobile Internet at you not unlimited, is more reasonable to transfer kilograms to pounds means of the phone. Try to find such program converter in the menu of the phone - many producers supply devices with them at the plant. If there is no converter of units in your phone, but there is a Java interpreter, install in it the Unit Converter for Java application.
5. Users of phones with the Symbian operating system equipped with a touchscreen can install in them the program under the name Converter Touch.
6. If you are an owner of the smartphone or tablet working running the Android operating system to you it is necessary to choose one of several dozen various converters of units on Android Market.
7. At last, the users knowing any given algorithmic language can write in language familiar to them the program for the transfer of kilograms to pounds independently.