> From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:59:59 -0400 > > Divide Inches Cubed by 231.000001 will equal gallons
And two cubic feet = 15 U.S. gallons. 1728 cubic inches to the cubic foot (12 * 12 * 12). IIRC an Imperial (British) pint is 20 fluid ounces, while a U.S. pint is 16 fl.oz. So a U.S gallon is 128 fl.oz., while an Imperial gallon is umm... 160 fl.oz. An Imperial gallon is 5/4 of a US gallon (20% larger), useful for comparing gasoline prices between the US and Canada before we went metric up here. Now, a liter is about a quart - about 10% more than a U.S. quart, or 10% less than an Imperial quart. Living in a country that uses two (or three) systems of measure is really good for developing your ability at mental arithmetic, and when some measures have the same name for different quantities it's good for developing your ability to remain calm when confused, and your tolerance for food that didn't turn out the way you expected when you read the recipe. Otherwise, there's a lot to be said for everybody going metric. (Btw, "A pint's a pound / The world around", while referring to Imperial measure, is off by 20%, but it's correct for US measure, assuming water at (oops) 20 degrees C, not F. On the other hand, "Two and a quarter pounds of jam / Weigh about a kilogram" is only off by 2%.) I think I've had too much coffee this morning. I'm drinking it from a de facto standard 12 oz. coffee mug, not an Imperial 10 oz cup or a U.S. 8 oz cup, or the hypothetical 5 oz cup that coffee making equipment is calibrated in. An 8 oz cup is 225 ml. _______________________________________________ Global Gecko Association http://www.gekkota.com Classifieds http://www.gekkota.com/cgi-gekkota/classifieds.cgi gecko mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gekkota.com/mailman/listinfo/gecko
