Re: misc.metric-system

Nicholas Fitzpatrick wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ed Huntress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Whoops. I'm getting my dry measures mixed up with liquid measures. Dry
> > measure, a US quart equals 1.01 liters. Liquid measure, a US quart
> > equals ).9463 liters.
> >
> > However, an Imperial quart...<g>
>
>
> So, you are defending the non-metric system here?  :-)
>
> Here are some good tables (from cooking)
>
> http://marycontrary.tripod.com/food/charts.html
>
> A US pint is 16 fl oz.  A British pint is 20 fl oz.  However, this
> is complicated because a US fl oz. is 29.5 mL, while a UK fl oz.
> is 28.4 fl oz.
>
> (I guess gravity varies over the Atlantic ...).
>
> Nick



Luckily for all of us, machinists don't work in ounces.
Speaking of ounce to gram conversions ... :-)