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Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world
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Thanks for proving how stupid of a measurement a “cup” is

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TaTTe@lemmy.world
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I’m also confused by this 473 ml pint, is that some American thing? I always thought pints were 568 ml… as in pint of beer.

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azi@mander.xyz
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Imperial (used in the British Empire) vs US customary. The imperial fluid gallon (4.54609 L exactly) was never historically defined in terms of another unit while the US fluid gallon was defined as 231 cubic inches (3.785411784 L exactly). A pint is defined as 1/16 of a gallon in each system, but they can’t agree on how many ounces are in a pint (16 for US, 20 for imperial). Note that there are also imperial and US customary dry gallons and thus imperial and US customary dry pints…

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Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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That adds a hilarious new dimension to how shitty the Imperial system is because I had no idea that different countries would just define their own versions of the measurements.

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