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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille TaserlinkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoOh no, so we have metric, imperial units, and now colonial units?!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•10 months agoStill british units :D. In 1826 Britain decided to redefine gallon to mean “10 pounds of water”. The earlier standard was 231 cublic inches (potentially meant to be 8 pounds of water). The US never adopted the new gallon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gallon
Oh no, so we have metric, imperial units, and now colonial units?!
Still british units :D. In 1826 Britain decided to redefine gallon to mean “10 pounds of water”. The earlier standard was 231 cublic inches (potentially meant to be 8 pounds of water). The US never adopted the new gallon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_gallon