"A Sign of the Times. Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture-engineering professor
at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology said that his team has
successfully extracted 1.4 mL (0.042 ounces) of gasoline ...
At least this is progress of a sort. The main unit is metric, and the
secondary an awkward colonial conversion. In the past, the 0.042 would
have been rounded to 0.05 and the result reported as
... successfully extracted nearly 1/20 oz (1.6667 mL) ...
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