Blane White said:

>> "TM 25 has 25 grams OTC per pound but it is sold in 6.4 oz
>> foil packs.  Each such pack contains 10 grams of OTC and
>> when mixed with a 2 pound bag of powdered sugar..."

and Peter said:

> Cut out the Imperial!

OK, I'll play:

Translating into metric, we get:

   TM 25 has 25 grams OTC per 0.4536 kilo...

(Nope, that's useless gibberish.  Let's try again...)

   TM 25 has 55.11 grams OTC per kilo.

(OK, but the name needs to be changed to "TM 55.11")

   It is sold in 181.4 gram foils packs.
   Each such pack contains 10 grams of OTC and
   when mixed with a 0.9072 kilo bag of powdered sugar..."

Nope, still gibberish.  It seems clear that the product
was packaged and intended for use in an "imperial"
measurement system. (Imperial?  Perhaps the kitchen of
Darth Vader's Death Star?).

Note the name - "TM 25".
25 what per what?
25 grams per pound.

Sorry Peter, but Blaine is being pragmatic - the "nonsense"
was designed in from the start!

Things could be worse.  In Britian, the following is a standard
unit of thermal conductivity (used for calculating heat loss
through walls and such):

        BThU/hour/sq ft/cm/degrees F

And in electrical engineering, 1 microfarad equals 900 jars


        jim (who fondly recalls the "lids per bag" measurement
             system, but wonders how many "lids per jar")

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