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It's not. Mass is a single, base unit in any

practical, widely used system of units. Only the old Imperial system uses 2units to express mass. Example 2Pound 4 Ounces. This can also be expressed as 2.25 Pound if it is decimalized. So you see there is no need to use 2units of measure unless you choose to. Another example: 3kilo 140milligram is the same amount as 3.140 Kilo. The beauty of the Metric system which most of the world uses is always decimalized and quantities are never expressed using 2units like the British do. Everything in the Metric system is a multiple of 10, making it dead easy to express quantities in decimal form using only 1unit, never 2 units.

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