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That doesn't make sense. A liter is better to imagine than a gallon (which is a huge jug). A pint of beer is same as saying 500ml of beer - both are equally eas

That doesn't make sense. A liter is better to imagine than a gallon (which is a huge jug). A pint of beer is same as saying 500ml of beer - both are equally easy to grasp.

axaxs 6y ago
Beer pouring is inexact. 500 ML is never 500ML. A system based on halfs is inexact but more accurate.
- ascorbic 6y ago
  Have half a litre then. Speaking as someone from the only country that legally mandates beer in both pints (on draught) and metric (in bottles), I prefer a (UK, 20oz) pint if I'm drinking, because it's larger and I'm thirsty. For every other reason though litres are easier to reason about. The US 16 oz pint doesn't even have the benefit of being larger!
  - fanf2 6y ago
    But usually in British pubs, beer is served in glasses that are a pint up to the brim, so if you are served beer with any head at all it’s probably closer to half a litre than a pint.
- atomlib 6y ago
  It's physically impossible to measure exactly 500.(0) mL [500.0000000000… mL with infinite number of zeroes] of any liquid with absolute accuracy. It's just the law of metrology. There always will be an error, you will always be able to create better tools to add extra decimal places to your measurement and find more error. The question is how much of error you can tolerate in any given situation. The error has nothing to do with units of measurements chosen. You cannot measure exactly 1.(0) gallon [1.0000000000… gallon with infinite number of zeroes] of liquid with absolute accuracy either. In engineering this would be resolved with something like 500 ± 10 mL. In consumer goods there are either regulations or you get, say, 505 mL so you have nothing to complain about. And you would never be able to tell the difference. By the way, ML is megaliter. Milliliter is mL.
- xorcist 6y ago
  That's a lot of beer.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    524'151 tuns? With sigfigs, call it 500 kilotuns[1]. [1] unfortunately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_(unit) leaves me no wiser as to what volume the unit "shit tun" might measure.
  - fanf2 6y ago
    The London beer flood was only about 1 Ml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

That doesn't make sense. A liter is better to imagine than a gallon (which is a huge jug). A pint of beer is same as saying 500ml of beer - both are equally easy to grasp.

axaxs 6y ago

Beer pouring is inexact. 500 ML is never 500ML. A system based on halfs is inexact but more accurate.

ascorbic 6y ago
Have half a litre then. Speaking as someone from the only country that legally mandates beer in both pints (on draught) and metric (in bottles), I prefer a (UK, 20oz) pint if I'm drinking, because it's larger and I'm thirsty. For every other reason though litres are easier to reason about. The US 16 oz pint doesn't even have the benefit of being larger!
- fanf2 6y ago
  But usually in British pubs, beer is served in glasses that are a pint up to the brim, so if you are served beer with any head at all it’s probably closer to half a litre than a pint.
atomlib 6y ago
It's physically impossible to measure exactly 500.(0) mL [500.0000000000… mL with infinite number of zeroes] of any liquid with absolute accuracy. It's just the law of metrology. There always will be an error, you will always be able to create better tools to add extra decimal places to your measurement and find more error. The question is how much of error you can tolerate in any given situation. The error has nothing to do with units of measurements chosen. You cannot measure exactly 1.(0) gallon [1.0000000000… gallon with infinite number of zeroes] of liquid with absolute accuracy either. In engineering this would be resolved with something like 500 ± 10 mL. In consumer goods there are either regulations or you get, say, 505 mL so you have nothing to complain about. And you would never be able to tell the difference. By the way, ML is megaliter. Milliliter is mL.
xorcist 6y ago
That's a lot of beer.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  524'151 tuns? With sigfigs, call it 500 kilotuns[1]. [1] unfortunately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tun_(unit) leaves me no wiser as to what volume the unit "shit tun" might measure.
- fanf2 6y ago
  The London beer flood was only about 1 Ml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood