Today, December 19, OWM of NIST posted Special Publication 1181.
The title is “Unit Pricing Guide”; “A Best Practice Approach to Unit Pricing”
On Page 9 is the statement: “The following units and these only must be used.
Metric Units of Measurement are accepted, the foundation of “Best
Ignore prior note. I found the document at the link below:
http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/pubs/upload/SP1181-Unit-Pricing-Guide.pdf
I do stand on the comment below. Allowing different Customary units in a
category across stores makes unit pricing relatively useless to compare between
stores.
In French-speaking areas, I’ve often seen a space between the $ and the number,
and a space before a ? or a !. Over 100 years ago that was fairly common in
English writing too (I’ve got some old books).
Carleton
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
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Subject: NIST SP 1181: Unit Pricing Guide “A Best Practice Approach to Unit
Pricing
Date: December 19, 2014 at 8:28:15 AM CST
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