Hello Joseph,
The confusion may be that there are (at least) three DIFFERENT pints, and
three different quarts. Your sizes sound like the U.K. kind. The other two
are:
U.S. dry pint 550.6105 mL
U.S. liquid pint 473.1765 mL
Quarts (dry or liquid) are two pints. The U.S. gallon is for liquids only, 4
liquid quarts per gallon. For dry measurements (like apples) the peck is
used, or bushels for even larger volumes.
John
(Source: CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics)
On Jeudi 11 Septembre 2003 16:58, Joseph B. Reid wrote:
> There seems to be some confusion about the size of a pint. The
> following definitions from the (Canadian) Weights and Measures Act may
> clarify the situation.
>
> English French metric
> ------- ------ ----------
> gallon gallon 4 546.09 mL
> quart pinte 1 136.52 mL
> pint chopine 568.26 mL
> gill roquille 142.07 mL
