>> <nitpick> Actually, you did it in American, not Imperial. 
>> An Imperial
>> gallon weighs 10lbs. </nitpick>  :-)
>
> I love them fringe units -- it's like going to the circus 
> :)


They were, however there first :-)

Having a (real) gallon of water weight 10 pounds was a good 
idea.
The only problem was then having 8 pints to the gallon 
instead of 10

The Yankees, instead of making their pints 0.8 the size and 
having 10 of them, made their gallon 8/10 the size. If 
they'd got it right back then we may by now have had another 
spacecraft on the surface of Mars.



        Russell




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