"James Silverton" > wrote in message
>
> Nevertheless, I wonder how many people in the US have bothered to get so
> precise a scale?
>
> --

Probably very few, but in our international and internet world it is a good
investment. I can think in metric too.

I survived for many years without a scale, but once I got one we find it can
be very useful and eliminates translation errors to volume.