Kevanf1 wrote:
On 29/04/06, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
On Saturday April 29 2006 08:35, James Knott wrote:
It's amazing that Americans are still so backward as to stick with the Imperial measures.
We don't. The imperial gallon is 5 quarts. The US gallon is 4 quarts. Canadians, I believe, use the imperial gallon, or used to.
Now I'm confused. A quart is two pints, yes? 8 pints equal a gallon the same as 4 quarts. All these are indeed Imperial measures or they are here in the UK.
A gallon is 4 quarts, but a U.S. gallon is 4 U.S. quarts. An Imperial gallon is 4 Imperial quarts, but a U.S quart is 32 ounces, and Imperial is 40. And of course the ounces are different sizes too, so while you have a 4/5 ratio in the number of ounces in U.S. & Imperial gallons, the actual volume difference is 5/6. This illustrates exactly why that nonsense should be abandoned in favour of metric.