On Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:05 PM [GMT+1=CET], Joe Conner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Gallons are *not* the same; yours are 16 fluid ounces, ours are 20.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but in America, 16 fluid
ounces is a pint, not a gallon. A gallon has a technical
definition: 231 cubic inches.
On the other hand, the Imperial (British) gallon is the
volume of 10 pounds of water, at a temperature of 62°F,
weighed in air with brass weights, which, by calculation, is
equivalent to about 277.42 cubic inches (4,546.1 cm³)
You are right; it was a typo; I should have said pint. American pints
are 16 fl. oz. while Engliah ones ar 20. Sorry for any confusion. I
learnt this from someone who had been in the US Navy and had been taught
"a pint's a pound the world around" (a pound being 16 ounces in
anybody's money, except in The Netherlands where a "pund" is 500 grams).
He was quite upset to learn that this was wrong.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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