Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Godfrey Rock (cudbg@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
17 Oct 1995 19:20:47 +0100
>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?
Cheers
Godfrey Rock
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