The pound is a unit of weight, which is the force that gravity exerts on an object on earth's surface, and the newton is a unit of force defined metrically. Since weight is the result of an object's acceleration by the force of gravity (yes, the idea of acceleration applies to a stationary object), they are directly comparable.
One pound [of force] equals 4.44822162 newtons, so 100 pounds equals 444.822162 newtons. For any object in one frame of reference for all measurements, pounds and newtons can be converted one to another in this way.
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