That is correct. That "Pound Plus" (dumbed-down for American consumer) chocolate bar is imported from Belgium, so of course it is hard metric. It costs five bucks in Salem Oregon, so the price per unit is very easy to calculate: a penny per gram.
----- Message from Eric L Shuman <[email protected]> --------- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:50:11 -0700 From: Eric L Shuman <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:54057] Re: Example of problem with round off errors, etc. To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
That's quite odd, as I've found Trader Joe's to be one place where finding hard metric sizes. -"Pound Plus" chocolate bar = 500 g -Couscous in 500 g boxes -"1 L" and other even sizes of olive oil bottles etc Someone dropped the ball here, definitely. On 26 June 2014 14:54, Parker Willey Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:Hi: Suppose someone takes a 1 liter bottle of Safflower seed oil and converts the label info to legacy units for sale in the US. Then later, someone else wants to put on the label metric units, uses the legacy info and converts it back resulting in a round off error. See the attached picture. Also, in the discussion about "er" vs "re" endings on units of measure, you remember the legacy unit of land area: acre. It is defined as 43560 legacy square feet. Anyway, should it be spelled "acer". Just a tidbit. ...Parker Willey Jr. San Jose, CA
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