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Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:43
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Fuel
Paul or ANYONE,
Could you tell me why the US gallon is different
to the Imperial gallon - it has always bothered me. I've searched the
conversions and found that the Imperial system has 20 oz to the pint and
the US has 16 oz to the pint, and we all have 2 pints = 1 quart and 4 quarts
gallon. It also seems there is a difference in the value of the
ounce.
We both have 16 oz to the lb - I wonder if that
had anything to do with some sort of EARLY
rationalisation?
I would really like to understand the reasoning
behind this difference, there must be some sound reasoning behind wanting
to change from what was THEN considered a universal
'Weights & Measures' system.
While your at it could someone tell me why Stone
was dropped from the US weights system i.e. 14 lbs =1 Stone.
I just figure if I could just understand the
reasoning behind these decisions and if they sound logical - I could better
live with them, like I do with the difference in spelling. Not that I'm so
great at spelling, in fact I used to get in all sorts of trouble by spelling
things phonetically such as in the US system - but they belted that out
of me, however I do understand the logic behind it. Now if I could just get a
handle on the weights issue!
George ( down under)
Use metric and you don't have that kind of
problems.
Richard Sohn
N-2071U