Hi Leonard.

19-May-04 16:59:03, Leonard Erickson wrote to Jasen Betts



 JB>> Hi Tom.

 JB>> 16-May-04 08:12:46, Tom Walker wrote to Pascal Schmidt
 LE> ->  TW> I suspect you are laughing as you listen the
"Amercians"
 JB>> complain ->  TW> about Gasoline approaching $2.50 per US Gallon.
 JB>> :-) :-) -> Wrong tree. While I have a driver's license, I don't
 JB>> own a car and don't
 TW>> pla -> to. Also I can't compare the price as I don't have the
 TW>> faintest idea of how -> much a gallon is. ;)
 TW>> One US Gallon is 3.78541 Ltrs

 JB>> hmm, that's 231 cubic inches should be a US gallon Oddly world
 JB>> book dictionary also says 3.7853 ltr

 LE> CRC handbook of physics and chemistry says 3.785412. I'd trust it.
 LE> The dictionary is wrong.

OK. The Rubber Bible: I resect that source.

 LE> A gallon is *defined* as 231 cubic inches.

interesting definition, I wonder how that came about.

 LE>  An inch is *defined* as 2.54 cm (really!)

Is is now.  I have somewhere a reference to a 2.539... cm inch.

 LE> 231 * 2.54^3 = 3785.411784 cm^3 = 3.785411784 liters.

BTW can you tell me a pint (us) is a pound of what?

 -=> Bye <=-

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