Re: RE: US Metric

From: Rob Agnew (ragnew@islandnet.com)
Date: Thu Oct 23 1997 - 21:52:06 EDT


At 11:40 AM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> > I still think in
>> > imperial measure (miles, feet, inches, acres, gallons etc.)
>
>> Well, the U.S. is notorious for doing things differently, why should this
>> be any different? I do the same thing, I think in imperial, then convert
>> to metric
>
> Be careful! Imperial measure != US measure.
>
> E.g. 1 US gal = 1.200949 imp gallon.
>
> Ron
>
>
Is this the new math Ron? :)

Last time I looked, an imperial gallon was larger that the US gallon.

Rob Agnew
ragnew@islandnet.com

Victoria, B.C.
Canada



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