On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 17:10 -0700, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > On Sat, 2025-10-18 at 16:32 -0400, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
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> >> Here in Canada the pint is legally defined as 568.26 ml.  I can just
> 
> >> see
> 
> >> somebody going to court over that last .26 ml!
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> 
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2025, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
> > It seems like a very strange number: 19.215 US floz — but it's almost
> 
> > exactly 20 British floz.
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> 
> Q: is that 20.0 British floz, but the extra digits of the 19.215 are an 
> artifact of conversion to US floz?

Exactly. 20 British floz are 586.261 ml


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