If you’ve gotten in on the IPO for Chipotle stock (NYSE: CMG) and enjoy the upward growth, you can thank me personally. I eat there a lot.
That said, it should come as no surprise to you when I mention that a coworker came into my office and dropped of a Chipolte bag with my internet order in it on the way back to the office.
It came in a decent sized brown bag with handles, and when the empty bag toppled over, I noticed text on the bottom of it in a small table. I thought it was one of those “this bag made by” or a “please recycle” blurb.
Nope. It was a unit conversion table.
I ignored it for a split second and then wondered what that might be there; could it be the fault tolerance of the bag, listing volume, dimensions, and lifting capacity?
Nope. So I went to give it closer inspection. And, it’s reasons like this I like Chipotle. Here’s the table:
| Burrito Qty | Unit | Equivalent Weight |
| 1 | miligram | 566,999 milligrams |
| 1 | gram | 566.999 grams |
| 1 | kilogram | 0.566999 kilograms |
| 1 | grain | 8,748.80 grains |
| 1 | ounce | 20 ounces |
| 1 | pound | 1.2488 pounds |
| 1 | troy ounce | 18.14398 troy ounces |
| 1 | pennyweight | 364.58 pennyweight |
| 1 | carat | 2,834.997 carats |
While cute, I wondered why 566.999. What happened to that other lone milligram?
The answer, I suspect, lies in whoever did the conversion, most like using the program units, or web version that does the same thing, ended up with a rounding error and didn’t recognize it.