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Default Boeing and metrcication question

Right - that was for Canada and Mexico. One thing - a Liter is not SI metric.
It is 'old school' metric.

But the high up managers are 'old school' so we understand!

Martin

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Winston wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote:
(...)I don't think, in other words, that Coke and Pepsi would print
only the liters on the bottles if they were allowed to do so.


I just noticed how painlessly we adopted the liter as a unit of measure
for cola and how easily intuitive that unit is, in the U.S. now.

--Winston


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