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from: DAVID WILLIAMS
date: 2006-08-14 18:15:04
subject: round numbers

-> Most Coke vending machines around here offer 355-mL cans for $1, or  
-> 500-mL resealable plastic bottles for $1.25 (Canadian, of course). I  
-> think 355 mL is 12 ounces, though whether they're "Imperial" fluid  
-> ounces (the volume of an ounce (mass) of water), or weird Yankee ones,  
-> I don't know. The Yankee ones are a tad bigger.  
  
I noticed that there are two sizes of pop cans around here, one of 341 
mL and the other 355 mL. I think they are both supposed to be 
approximations to 20 fl. ozes., the smaller one being 20 imperial 
(British, etc.) ounces and the larger one being 20 U.S. ounces. 
  
I wish people would just forget about ounces altogether. 
  
                            dow 
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