Re: Strange Numbers

From: Repeating Rifle (salmonegg_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:06:22 GMT

in article 1106234984.634604.27040@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, number6 at
snumber6@aol.com wrote on 1/20/05 7:29 AM:

> A recent post showed commercial HCl labelled as 31.45 % ...A strange
> number ...that exact value must have importance ... why so .. ?? I
> believe it is made up to be 10 M a nice round number ... then the 31.45
> % is calculated for the label ...

I think you read too much into the number. Someone with a calculator, rather
than a slide rule, did the calculation.

Bill

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