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You really recognize these weirdly precise numbers in packaging.
355ml. 454g. 25.4mm.
Yeah, suuuuure your chocolate bar is precise to 3 sig figs..
I wouldn't actually be surprised if chocolate bars are that exact. The equipment to do it is easily available, and they would be motivated to buy it to save having even 1 extra gram in the package.
True that, especially as they shrinkflate it. A chocolate bar is usually 50-60g these days. Used to be 71g as I was a kid. Gee I wonder where that number came from...
I've heard that one of the reasons that metrification didn't take off in the States was that when they converted highway signs, they rounded down instead of up, so people got mad at "losing" a couple km/h. Tactical error, there.
12 fl oz, 1 pound, 1 inch for us Americans or those curious about the imperial system.
Also, are you buying a pound of chocolate?
Sometimes!
But yeah, no, chocolate bars are usually 50-60g. Which is also a thing, because they used to be 72g. I remember that number specifically because that's two of your "ounces", except on a second Tuesday during the ides of march when an ounce is like 85 grams. But only for red things. There's a whole separate system for blue things.