I bought 175 g pack of salami which had 162 g of salami as well.

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    8 months ago

    See also: 2x4s

    (how is lumber measured in Europe? Are 2x4s called 2x4s? or 50x100s?)

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      Not surprising but: metric units, and they are the units of the finished product not some arbitrary historical size lumber used to be

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        8 months ago

        47 x 100 as I recall from my days working in a Builders Merchant, still referred to as ‘four by two’ by builders though