Obviously USC. Imperial would convert to a different volume in milliliters; also the whole exercise is an attempt to comply with FPLA, which requires USC and metric, Imperial is a big "no thank you." I was attempting to approach the 6 digit accuracy that FPLA requires for the converted number (vs true fill).
>________________________________ > From: Harold_Potsdamer <harold_potsda...@cox.net> >To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> >Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 9:05 PM >Subject: [USMA:53843] Re: 800 mL 3.1 oz > > > > >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: "cont...@metricpioneer.com" <cont...@metricpioneer.com> >>To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> >>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 >> >> > >
