OK, so every product didn't become rounded. But would you say that the majority did? Also, what do you consider rounded? I would consider 375 mL as quasi-rounded. Not as round as 400 mL would have been, but more round then 379 or 378 mL as they could have left it. You are living in a dream world if you think metric conversion is going to be 100 %. There has to be a line somewhere that when crossed one would agree that the country is considered fully metric. What would be a reasonable percentage?
Jerry ________________________________ From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:23:19 PM Subject: [USMA:43166] Re: true metrication is systemic On 2009/02/22, at 2:09 AM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote: It appears to me that the conversion to metric in South Africa and Australia was successful because there was also a change in the product sizes to rounded metric. … This is not generally true for Australia. Some industries took advantage of the opportunity provided by the metrication process to rationalise sizes of containers. This was generally done to reduce the number of different size containers. As an example, milk containers became 1 litre, 2 litres, and 3 litres and all other sizes ceased to exist. However, other industries chose to use odd sizes based on historical models. These industries usually chose a soft conversion approach where they kept the old size containers and gave them a new metric size. For example, a small beer bottle contained 1/12 of an Imperial gallon (378.8 millilitres) and this was quietly reduced to 375 millilitres. Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
