echinosum wrote:
Nad R;927420 Wrote:
I have traveled to Canada on occasion. Canada uses the Imperial Gallon
as
4.5 liters. Where the US Gallon is 3.7 liters for gasoline containers.

So can I assume we both learned something here?
You now know what the English System is now?

And that we both need to be conscious of the English vs Imperial
differences?
In the US every day life people use the English System. In the Science
Arena is the only area in the US that uses the Metric System in which I
am
also familure with.

But as you stated you seem to use a mixed system, Celsius for
temperature
and inches for measurement. Is this common to mix it up in your part of
the
world? Here in the US the two systems are separate, no mix. It is one
or
the other.
I was in Guatemala once. Small size drink bottles were 12 oz, larger
ones were 1 litre. Mixes of measures are not uncommon.

Here in Britain:
Petrol is sold in litres but roads are measured in miles. Unfortunately
fuel consumption is only available in mpg or litres/100km, when it would
make much more sense if it was reported as miles/litre or litres/100
miles. Some oldies have to convert litres to gallons in their head, to
understand what they are buying, but I haven't discussed gallons with
anyone for many years, except hidden in mpg fuel consumption measures.

The weather forecast is given in celcius as the prime measure, (with
Frankenstein in parenthesis on occasion). Although a few over 50s still
think in Frankenstein, celcius (often given its old name centigrade) is
what is in common use.

Beer and milk are sold in pints, but all other liquids are sold in
litres. So there is still an understanding of pints for consumable
liquids.

Recipe books and scales still use pounds/oz with metric alternative. So
although food is sold in kg in shops, pounds/oz remain deeply engrained.
Personally I mainly use metric, though certain recipes I've been using
for decades I still think in oz. US recipes in cups confuse us
terribly. I have stuck a label on my scales 1 cup = 225g, for
translation from US recipe books.

Even though in theory metric, a lot of packaged things are sold in
amounts of "about a pound", sometimes precisely 454g, but often 400g,
450g, 500g. Although certain things have legally prescribed package
sizes: wine can be sold as 375ml, 500ml, 750ml, 1000ml, and no other
sizes in this range. So the old practice of selling you 720ml, 700ml,
even 690ml I saw once, is outlawed.

Everything in DIY shops is metric. Working off plans, builders use mm.
But people know their height in feet and inches and it is a rare person
who readily knows it in mm, although that is how the doctor will record
it on your medical records. People still give approximations in inches,
even young people, though they never do any sums at school in such
amounts.

So, apart from miles for roads (in fact it is illegal to measure roads
in km, a council who put up some metric signs had to take them down) and
pints for beer and milk, just about everything else is legally required
to be metric in Britain. After 30-40 years, we are are increasingly
getting used to them. But inches/feet and pounds/oz remain engrained in
the culture, even for young people, even though they learn nothing about
them at school.

So I see said the blind man. Here in the US I have noticed most modern
books on baking no longer measure dry goods by volume. Many of the newer
books on baking measure dry goods by weight because items like flour can
very from different sources. When they go by weight the baked goods tend to
more consistent.

But remember the first line. A gallon is not same as a gallon in Canada. A
pint in the US is sixteen ounces, some countries a pint is twenty ounces (
I think ).

So math may not be a common language after all


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