[USMA:22858] RE: Mishmash of units at the liquor store

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Joseph B. Reid wrote: >Terry Simpson wrote >>It is worse than that. It says a UK pint is 568.261 cc. >>There are two mistakes here. The conversion should be >>to ml not cc. Secondly, the UK pint is *precisely* 568 ml. >>The website is wrong. > > >The Canadian metric Practice Guide says that >1 (imperial) pint = 568.261 2 mL     Oops. Sorry, I got it wrong. Thanks for your research. The UK pint is legally defined as:   0.56826125 litre   See: http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19951804_en_2.htm     Incidentally, I just realised that a 'cc' is identical to a ml. I must have known this from all my experiences with cars and motorbikes. I have only just become conscious of it.   I was instinctively reacting to the way it was written because ‘cc’ is not at all SI notation and I frequently see ‘568 ml’ as an expression. However 'cubic cm' or 'cm3' would be fine. In fact, it would be excellent since ml is not an SI unit whereas cm3 is.