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One hectogram or
1 hg? Looks pretty compact to me!
Duncan
Of course, it will take a little getting used to.
And, what about Mm for advertising used [pre-owned]
cars?
D.
In a
message dated 2001-09-01 13:46:29 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Canada it is legal to sell loose retail food by the kilogram
or 100
grams, or by the pound or ounce. It has just struck me that
one of the
reasons that most food is priced by the pound is that the
price by the
kilogram looks too large, and "100 g" takes more space on
the price tag
than "lb.". That would not apply if Metric
Commission Canada had not
frowned upon hectogram, dekagram, and
decigram. Pricing by the pound (lb.)
has no advantage over pricing
by the hectogram (hg).
In quite a few delicatessens up
there I've seen cheese and other things like
that priced by the 100 g.
100 g takes up less room than "hectogram" and is a
lot more
understandable.
Carleton
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