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On Sat, 24 May 2008 09:57:19 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:
>
>> Eeyore wrote:
>> >
>> > Not UK fl oz of course.
>> >
>> > I did just check my own bottle of L&P and to my surprise it's labelled "
>> > 150ml (5.3 fl oz) " but those are UK fl oz. There is no actual prohibition of
>> > dual marking but almost no-one does it and it wouldn't be US fl oz since they
>> > aren't legal here. Your bottle would be 15.6 fl oz here. Proof it any were
>> > needed that what you have there is an example of export labelling for the US
>> > market. It bears no resemblance in any other way either to the UK bottle
>> > which is distinguishable by its orange label e.g.
>> > http://www.leaperrins.ca/homeEN.asp
>> >
>> > I also checked a few other items and no others had fl oz on them. They're all
>> > in ml.
>>
>>    They don't want to confuse small minds like yours, that can't do more
>> then the simplest math.
>
>Fluid ounces serve no practical purpose.
>
>FYI when I started studing physics we briefly used the Imperial system and it made
>no sense at all what with crazy measures like foot-poundals et al. Luckily we
>rapidly changed to cgs and then MKS (the precursor of SI) and all of a sudden all
>was clear.
>
>I went on to get top grades in my Physics 'O' level (age 16) and 'A' level (age 18)
>exams and furthermore got a pass (a second only sadly - the electronic content that
>year was low) in the Physics 'S level' (special paper) normally only typically
>taken by Oxford and Cambridge entrants (our 'Ivy Leauge' if you like). The school
>wanted me to apply to Cambridge actually but they didn't offer any specialist
>electronic courses, they were still stuck with 'natural sciences', so I went to the
>University of London (UCL).
>
>Doing Physics in Imperial measures is NUTS. Never mind that American measures use
>the same names but are different ! What a bloody mess !

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And yet...

Take a look at this:

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel/

Perhaps the difficulty in dealing with non-Metric units has resulted
in what appears to be our overwhelming scientific superiority.

JF