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> the relationship between mass, volume and length is trivially easy to understand. Imperial units also have a simple relationship between mass and volume. In
by kps 13y ago
> the relationship between mass, volume and length is trivially easy to understand.
Imperial units also have a simple relationship between mass and volume. In the US, a pint's a pound the world around, and in the world around the US, a pint of water is a pound and a quarter, and in some of those places that rhymes.
(One fluid ounce — either kind — of water weights approximately one ounce.)
- com2kid 13y ago> In the US, a pint's a pound the world around Having been born and raised in the US, I have never heard this before. Presumably you are referring to a pint of water? (Then again we never learned pints anyway, so meh)
- rquantz 13y agoa pint's a pound the world around I always wondered if butter was the basis for standard units. There's something rather wonderful about that idea to me.