On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 22:14:35 +0100, "Leonardo Boselli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Seen on an Italian supermarket (and bought by my wife): >A box of washing powder labeled: 9,113 kg ... >Usually normal boxes are 4 , 4.5 or 5 kg , so I expected an 8 9 or >10 kg box. >The product is made in Italy (By a subsiadiary of procter and >Gamble) and labeled for Italian, Belgian and Dutch market (in >Italian, french and dutch). >Curiously if you compute suggested "portions" for the number of >washes declared in the label you end to 9000g. >This size is also very close, but not equal to an american "rational" >size . >Does someone know the background of this strange behaviour ? I can't answer this one, Leonardo, but I was looking through a catalogue of electronic components today from a UK company, and there are lots of cables there by Belden and Alpha sold in 100 ft and 500 ft lengths. Needless to say, I will never buy these products. Chris -- Chris KEENAN UK Metrication: http://www.metric.org.uk/ UK Correspondent, US Metric Association
