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Yeah. It'd've been neat if the US gallon was defined to be 256in^3 (with the US in being exactly 2.5cm). Then, it'd be exactly 4000 cm^3 (4L) to a US gallon, an
by thechao 2y ago
Yeah. It'd've been neat if the US gallon was defined to be 256in^3 (with the US in being exactly 2.5cm). Then, it'd be exactly 4000 cm^3 (4L) to a US gallon, and the table of "prefixes" would be:
gallon 2^0
half-gallon 2^-1
quart 2^-2
pint 2^-3
cup 2^-4
gill 2^-5
jill 2^-6 -- invented half-gill
ounce 2^-7
tbsp 2^-8
half-tbsp 2^-9
dram 2^-10
The "positive" values are harder; you'd have to steal/reappropriate the dry prefixes:
peck 2^1
half-bushel 2^2
bushel 2^3
half-barrel 2^4
barrel 2^5
hogshead 2^6
??? 2^7
??? 2^8