Joe Ten Pack? SI does not dictate packaging quantities (or even mention them), nor should it. The number of discrete items in a package takes into account stackability, storage, divisibility (e.g., cutting a container of a dozen eggs into two manageable half-dozen containers for people living alone), etc.
For beer and other drinks bought in multiples, packages of 4 (2x2), 6 (2x3), 12 (3x4) and 24 (4x6) work well. Without some kind of honeycomb arrangement (e.g., 3+4+3, which complicates package manufacture), a 10-pack (2x5) tends to be too long and skinny for stable stacking. This doesn't necessarily mean that other packaging quantities could not or should not be used. I just mention it, because it seems to me unnecessarily zealous to insist that, because a measurement system is decimal based, packaging quantities should automatically be similarly based. They are in no way related to one another. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of David Owen >Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 17:52 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:22058] Re: hPa and mbar > > > >> >> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 13:10:21 >> G. Stanley Doore wrote: >> >Moving the decimal point is easy and Ok for those like you all >> who deal with >> >SI all of the time. >> > >> ?? Actually, dear Stan, it's 'easy and ok' for *everybody*! >> That's the exact beauty of the SI system, that it's for any and >> everyone, from the Joe Six Pack on the street to the Einstein in us. >> > > >SI is Joe Ten Pack, I believe. >
