My 'take' is that they are, simply, innumerate. They 'hated maths' in school so never learned about significant digits, rounding etc. Duncan From: kilopascal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 9, 2001 12:26 Subject: [USMA:14249] Re: Metric in New York: the Ugly, the Bad and the Good >2001-07-09 > >When I see something like 206.99 mL it makes me think the guy or gal who is >responsible for the text on the label is very anti-metric. If it was their >way they would not put metric on at all, but since they have to, they will >make it as ugly as possible. They hope that when people see something like >that, they will be so turned off to metric, they will write their >congressman to have all metric laws repealed. > >John >
