Seen on an Italian supermarket (and bought by my wife): A box of washing powder labeled: 9,113 kg ... Usually normal boxes are 4 , 4.5 or 5 kg , so I expected an 8 9 or 10 kg box. The product is made in Italy (By a subsiadiary of procter and Gamble) and labeled for Italian, Belgian and Dutch market (in Italian, french and dutch). Curiously if you compute suggested "portions" for the number of washes declared in the label you end to 9000g. This size is also very close, but not equal to an american "rational" size . Does someone know the background of this strange behaviour ? Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
