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Is 454.960 pennyweights as heavy as a Cow?

It's about one-one-thousandth as heavy as a Cow
The weight of a Cow is about 440,000 pennyweights.
(for Holstein, a.k.a. Holstein Friesian, a.k.a. Friesian, Bos primigenius) (adult, heifer)
A mature Holstein cow (the well-known black-and-white, spotted breed of cow) typically weighs 440,000 pennyweights. President William Howard Taft (1909 - 1913) kept a Holstein cow named Pauline Wayne on the White House grounds — a gift from a Wisconsin senator and the source of the First Family's milk.
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