[Coco] Off-topic: gallons

[Alex Evans]

On Apr 11, 2005, at 9:14 PM, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

>     Ah, yes... the old 'Imperial' gallon vs. the 'US gallon'. Had the 
> same problem here, back when we switched to metric in the 1970's...

The problem is actually even worse.  In the US a dry and fluid gallon 
are different sizes.  Of course that is because we are using what the 
brits used in the 18th century, while they changed the size of their 
gallons in the 19th.

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Theodore (Alex) Evans | 2B v ~2B = ?