There was no 5 L softdrink bottle,but a .5 L or, more clearly, a 0.5 L
bottle. The point was hardly visible; one more argument against using
decimal fractions beginning with a point. In medicine this could (and will)
lead to fatal errors. It cost the life of a British baby in the 1970s. A
commission that investigated the case recommended reverting to British
Imperial medical weights and measures! Presumably these had always been
error-free; only, what happens if you confuse drams with drachms? Or when
you confuse the avdp dram with the apothecary's dram? The later two differ
as much as the pound avdp. and the kilogram!
Han
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From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, 2001 January 05, 06:08
Subject: [USMA:10256] Downsizing.
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> Howard,
>
> I have never seen a 5 L soft drink bottle? The largest I've seen is 3 L.
> Is this a new size in your area? That would have to be drunk fast, or the
> drink will go flat.
>
> Gl�ckliches Neues Jahr!
> Happy New Year!
>
> John
>
> Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
> frei zu sein.
>
> There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe
they
> are free!
>
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Howard Ressel
> Sent: Thursday, 2001-01-04 08:22
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:10220] Pringles potato chips going metric -Reply
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> We all know about the .5 L coke bottles. It seams that the size itself
may
> have originated from Coke HQ but each bottler labels it the way they see
> fit. In NY its clearly labeled .5 L, in Florida it was labeled
> 16.9 oz. (primary labels on the carton, I didn't scrutinize the legal
label on the
> bottles). I wonder if some bottlers labeled the 2 L bottles as 67.6 oz.
at first and
> gradually migrated to 2 L as it became more acceptable to the public
> anybody remember?
>
> Howard Ressel, Metric Manager
> New York State Department of Transportation, Region 4
>
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