If One US Pint is 473 ml/grams and one pound is 454 grams, I don't see how a pint can be a pound the world around, well even in a US world, there is 19 grams difference or do I have the math wrong.
On Wiki Answers the weight of a US Gallon is listed as 8,34 pounds at 4 C and there are eight pints in a gallon. Mike Payne ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Naughtin To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 21:56 Subject: [USMA:42176] A pint's a pound the whole world round Dear All, I was looking for the origins of the maxim, 'A pint's a pound the whole world round' when I happened on this reference at http://makezine.com/16/diyhome_measure/#msg3308 where they say: There's a difference between a U.S. pint (16 fl oz) and an Imperial pint (20 fl oz), which means that a pint's a pound only in the USA. An Imperial gallon of water weighs ten pounds, which means, (if I've got my old pre-metrication sums right) that a fluid ounce of water weighs an ounce. Now, it seems that the U.S. gallon is also different from the U.S. gallon, which make sense. Does anyone have any 'Rules of thumb' that apply to gallons, quarts, pints, and fluid ounces in the USA. Cheers, Pat Naughtin PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
