On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:44:32 +0000, Barbara and/or Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>on 4/28/2002 5:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> pint-size milk cartons are still the norm in supermarkets here >> (smaller stores use litres because they are smaller) > >How so? > >Quarts are a bit smaller than litres and a pint is only half a quart. How do >you arrive at litrew qre smaller than pints? What I meant was that the metric 'equivalents' are smaller: 500 ml vs. 568 ml, 1 litre vs. 1.14 l etc. Chris -- UK Metric Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
