On Mon, 28 May 2001, kilopascal wrote:
> ...
> There was a trade advantage to having various sizes of measurements all
> called by the same name.
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John,
Packaging industries and merchants still resist being constrained to *any*
limited set of well-defined units (SI or non-SI), because requirements and
restrictions make deceptive advertising for commercial advantage more difficult.
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> It was meant to introduce confusion in order
> for the trade to be in the traders favour.
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I doubt that *different units by the same name* was a negotiated
*conspiracy*. Absence of a universal authority (e.g. CGPM and CIPM)
and enforcement of standards is a more likely reason for confused units.
Gene.
