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From: stirling@fortune.UUCP (Patrick Stirling)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Measurements
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Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 15:22:08 EDT
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In article <627@hropus.UUCP> jin@hropus.UUCP (Jerry Natowitz) writes:
>Despite the saying that "a pint's a pound" to get technical and
>specific it isn't.  One ml or cc (they are not the same, by 24 parts
>per million, I don't remember which one's larger) of water at 4 degrees
>weighs 1 gram.  One fluid ounce of water is 29.57 ml, one ounce weighs
>28.35 grams.  So one fluid ounce weighs 1.043 ounces.

And don't forget that a British pint (whence I assume the word 'pint'
originated) has 20 fluid ounces in it! Also, I think US and UK floz's
are different. Although I am british, I have no idea where the word came 
frim. Webster's thinks it's from the Latin 'pinctere' to paint, via
middle english. It would be woth checking the Oxford English dictionary 
to settle this discussion!

patrick
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