Re: CHAT: browsers

At 10:13 AM -0500 2/10/03, John Cowan wrote:
>Tristan scripsit:
>
>> In America, do you use fluid
>> ounzes for icecream and solid ounzes for honey?
>
>Ice cream is indeed sold in fluid ounces, or rather in binary multiples
>thereof: half pints (8 fl. oz., about 236 ml), pints, quarts (= 2 pints),
>half gallons (= 2 quarts), gallons.  Note that "ounce" has no "z"; the
>"z" is actually an old abbreviation sign, the same used in "viz." =
>"videlicet" = "namely".
>
>I suspect the story is similar in the U.K., but the unit sizes are
>different.  The U.S. fl. oz. is about 29.6 ml, and there are 16 of them in
>a gallon.
16 oz. in a pint (8 per cup; 2 cups in a pint). There are 128 oz. in a gallon.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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