-=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Tom Walker <=-

 JB> Hi Tom.

 JB> 16-May-04 08:12:46, Tom Walker wrote to Pascal Schmidt
 
 
 ->  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 own
 JB> 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
 JB> Oddly world book dictionary also says 3.7853 ltr

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

A gallon is *defined* as 231 cubic inches. An inch is *defined* as 2.54
cm (really!)

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




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