>  >> <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.

Actually, the US gallon is the original English (Queen Anne) gallon. 
It was the British who redefined the gallon in 1824. As this was 
after the American Revolution, we did not feel inclined to go along 
with the change ;-)


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