Gustaf, I like your reasoning!
But regarding your last comment, what about dekagrams (dag)? A typical
hamburger patty might be 10 dag, instead of 100 g or 0.1 kg. In fact,
the "standard portion" of meat in a healthy diet, published by the FDA
or USDA is probably in the order of 9 dag to 10 dag. A polite bite-size
hors d'ouvre, a nibble, might be 1 dag. A piece of confection in a box
of assorted candies might be 1 dag. But I'm just estimating in my head,
here. However, 1 cL of water certainly would have a mass fairly close
to 1 dag.
Jim
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Gustaf Sj�berg wrote:
> What is the reason and use of prohibit centiliters for packaging? What
> is wrong with them?
> Personally I dont like milliliters, they are too small and always come
> in huge numbers. They should be forbidden instead.
> Just an ordinary glass of water is hundreds of milliliters. A unit that
> is too small to detect and that always come in vast quantities even when
> the thing you measure is not big is not userfrienly and should therefore
> not be the only allowed unit, especially not when there are
> alternatives. Therefore:
>
> 1 Liter = 100 Centiliters Nice and neat. Just like 1 m = 100 cm and
> 1 dollar = 100 cents.
>
> Unfortunately, the kg can't be divided into 100 as easy. But the
> syndrome is the same, grams are always hundreds and hundreds.
--
James R. Frysinger University/College of Charleston
10 Captiva Row Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
Charleston, SC 29407 66 George Street
843.225.0805 Charleston, SC 29424
http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cert. Adv. Metrication Specialist 843.953.7644
