Better to ask how many dollars in a pound than the other way around. When I was in elementary school in Evansville, Indiana, I learned that a pound was worth about $5.40. That was then. Now, a pound is worth about $1.35. And, of course, a dollar in 1950 would be worth about 8 cents today. I learned in Accounting 101 that a gallon is always a gallon and a mile is always a mile, but a dollar changes all the time. How can you relate relative values when the value of both quantities changes continually?? Cookie, in Florida