It definitely says 1.5 pint – 3.1 oz. But it doesn’t state whether the pints and ounces are USC or imperial.
http://www.aquamaestro.com/innerview.asp?catid=33 That water is very pricy. Wouldn’t it have been simpler to add 473 + 237 + 90 = 800 instead of converting the 800 mL to ounces and working it out the hard way? I find it makes it easier to convert the pints and ounces to millilitres and then just add the 3 numbers together. I didn’t need a calculator as I already knew the approximate number of millilitres in a pint and ounce. From: John M. Steele Sent: Tuesday, 2014-05-20 19:23 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:53842] Re: 800 mL 3.1 oz I can't read the number, but it looks like there is a number followed by PT (for pint) in front of the 3.1 OZ. Converting 800 mL, I get 27.05 OZ. Under "largest whole unit" rule it should be 1 PT 11.1 OZ if I accept their rounding (meaning the true fill is Customary, not metric). If it says 1.5 PT 3.1 OZ, that is mathematically correct but a style error, they have to use successively smaller whole units until the last unit. Stupid compound numbers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:53 AM Subject: [USMA:53841] 800 mL 3.1 oz My wife Michele and I visited my son Itai and his girl friend Destaney the other day to see their new place and I noticed that they have a tall cylindrical bottle of artesian VOSS water from Norway. I noticed the printed quantity is 800 mL which seems right, then I noticed that 3.1 FL. OZ. was also printed on the bottle below that measure. It turns out that someone really goofed up on that by a factor of almost ten! How is it that nobody noticed such a blatant error before this went into production? See attached photo that I took of the bottle. David Pearl www.MetricPioneer.com 503-428-4917
