Pounds to grams
One pound is 453.59237 grams, and this shows the working rather than just the answer. Nothing you type here leaves your browser — it is worked out on your own device, so there is nothing to send and nothing to log.
The factor
One pound is 453.59237 grams. That is the whole of the conversion: multiply by it, and nothing else happens.
And it is exact
Not rounded, not measured, not a convention that might be revised. The factor above is the definition, so an answer from it is as exact as the number you typed.
The pound is exactly 0.45359237 kg, and has been since 1 July 1959.
The number in your head
Most people use 450 for this, which is the factor to two significant figures. It is low by 0.792% — 7.92 grams too few in every thousand, and 79.2 in every ten thousand.
Going the other way
The reverse is not this sum backwards in your head. It is a different factor, 0.002204622622, and dividing by one is not the same as multiplying by a rounded version of the other.
Rounded, the way back is 0.0022, which is low by 0.2097%. So the two roundings do not cancel: go out and back with both and you do not land where you started.
How many of those decimals mean anything
The box above will give you ten decimal places because it can. Whether they mean anything is decided by your measurement, not by the arithmetic.
If you measured to the nearest pound, your figure is already uncertain by half of one — so the answer is uncertain by about 226.796185 grams, and every digit past that is decoration. Quoting 559.98699631 when you measured with a tape is claiming a precision the tape never had.
Where these two sit
Pounds and grams both measure mass, which is why they can be converted at all. A conversion between families — a length into a weight — is not a conversion, it is a question with a missing quantity in it.
The unit converter pairs pounds with kilograms rather than with grams, because that is the conversion people ask for most. This page exists because a good many ask for this one instead.
Other conversions from pounds
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