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Rule of Measurement (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[โ€“] azi@mander.xyz 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Imperial (used in the British Empire) vs US customary. The imperial fluid gallon (4.54609 L exactly) was never historically defined in terms of another unit while the US fluid gallon was defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785411784 L exactly). A pint is defined as 1/16 of a gallon in each system, but they can't agree on how many ounces are in a pint (16 for US, 20 for imperial). Note that there are also imperial and US customary dry gallons and thus imperial and US customary dry pints...

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

That adds a hilarious new dimension to how shitty the Imperial system is because I had no idea that different countries would just define their own versions of the measurements.