Dave Fawthrop wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:
|You can be sure that if manufacturers were pressed to come up with a
|single number for alkaline cell capacity

|The resulting numbers
|would be totally useless.

Not IMI totally useless, just limited.

But limited to uselessness for most consumers. A single number won't
tell you if a particular battery is better suited for years of life in
a digital clock or more pictures in a digital camera. Batteries
optimized for one scenario would be awful in the other.