[Coco] Off-topic: gallons

[Arthur Flexser]

And what, pray tell, is measured in dry gallons?  (Dry paint, maybe?)

Art

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Alex Evans wrote:

> 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 = ?
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