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Jan 8, 2010 12:49: writeaway changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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count
count (ct) [1]
a unit of quantity equal to 1. This unit is used in commerce to specify that the quantity stated represents a reliable count. For example, a carton marked "oranges 24 ct" contains exactly 24 oranges.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.html
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Jack Doughty
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English2Korean
: Exactly
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Jessica Noyes
40 mins
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Rob Grayson
: Seems straightforward enough to me
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kmtext
1 hr
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Sabine Akabayov, PhD
4 hrs
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Rolf Keiser
6 hrs
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Phong Le
1 day 20 hrs
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carton
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writeaway
: ct is count? no?/ok-I just answered too. Happy New Year, btw.
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why not? I put in a low CL. Why do you not post your proposal as an answer?
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Reference comments
count
a unit of quantity equal to 1. This unit is used in commerce to specify that the quantity stated represents a reliable count. For example, a carton marked "oranges 24 ct" contains exactly 24 oranges.
http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.html
Discussion
Well, yes, maybe it does make a difference; at least we know that these are things that could be counted; though maybe we also have to consider the possibility that 'ct' simply stands for... 'corn tortilla'!?
It certainly seems logical enough that they should come in sub-packs of 12.
And is the second figure invariably "12 ct"? Could it be that these 'bulk packs' contain respectively 16 / 24 / 12 individual packs of 12 items each? It would help so much to know what these 'items' are, and hence whether a count is likely or not.