Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Pyotr Filipivich (pyotr@coho.halcyon.com)
18 Oct 1995 02:00:02 GMT
cudbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Godfrey Rock) writes:
|>In article <813880535snz@chrism.demon.co.uk>,
|>Chris Marriott <chris@chrism.demon.co.uk> wrote:
|>>>In article <hatunenDGH61F.Dy0@netcom.com>,
|>>>DaveHatunen <hatunen@netcom.com> wrote:
|>>>Oh, things like this bottle of shampoo I have in my shower right
|>>>now, I'd presume. Made in the US, it proudly sports Imperial
|>>>measurements, along with a metric measurement for those of us who
|>>>have trouble converting:
|>>> 8.7 oz (250 ml)
|>>Huh? How can you equate a unit of mass with a unit of volume?
|>
|Follow this closely, particularly if you're American, and therefore have
|funny ideas about Imperial Volumetric Measurements :-)
|A (UK) gallon of water (at somewhere close to freezing) weighs 10 lbs.
|10 lbs is 160 ozs
|Therefore 1 (British) pint of water weighs 20 ozs.
|This is the origin of there being 20 (fluid) ozs to the pint.
|A pint of water (at least in the UK) is 568 or thereabouts grammes of water.
|(SG 1gm/cc at somewhere around 0 deg C) so it occupies around 568 ml.
|Therefore 20 (fluid) ozs (which is solely a volumetric measurement except
|where water is concerned) equates to 568 ml.
|There :-) Simple, and relatively painless, wasn't it?
Wait a minute - what ever happened to "a pints a pound the world
around"? I din't think beer prices were the reference. So what gives?
cheers
pyotr
|Cheers
|Godfrey Rock
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