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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Siemens
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In article <5bosmr$muc@orm.southern.co.nz> geoff@southern.co.nz (Geoff McCaughan) writes:
 > Rainer Thonnes (rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
 > 
 > > I think you'll still find people buying their apples by the pound, even
 > > in Germany.
 > 
 > Certainly not in New Zealand.

Indeed.  The difference is that in Germany (and the Netherlands and many
other countries that have gone metric quite a long while ago), the pound
they use nowadays has nearly no relation to the pound they used before
metrification.  Nowadays it is 500 grams.
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