US and Imperial gallons, litres...

[mrV]

Everyone should use metric system B) No, not kidding, it's more easier and everything is related to each other so simply. It belongs to SI-system too.

10cm*10cm*10cm = 1000cm^3 = 1dm^3 = 1 liter
80cm*30cm*30cm = 72000cm^3 = 72dm^2 = 72 liters
or 8dm*3dm*3dm = 72dm^3 = 72 liters,
because 10cm = 1dm => 1 dm^3 = 1 liters = 10 dl = 100cl = 1000 ml

millimetre = 0,001m = 1mm
centimetre = 0,01m = 1cm = 10mm
decimetre = 0,1m = 1dm = 10cm = 100mm
metre = 1m = 10dm = 100cm = 1000mm
(decametre = 10m)
(hectometre = 100m)
kilometre = 1km = 1000m

So it's very easy to calculate volumes.

who wants to drink 565 mls of beer - it's a pint for goodness' sake!

No one You get 1 liter or 0,5 liter or 0,33 liter mug from our restaurants..

 

[khs666]

mrV

Just because it's easier doesn't mean we want to use it..... Some of us are British after all (you know can't make up our minds whether to join Europe or be the next State of the Union, Metric or Imperial etc etc). Anyway, like the maths though - I haven't seen anything like that since University....

And I'm sorry Beer *MUST* be sold in pints.... not like that fizzy stuff the Germans and Aussies make everyone else drink.....LOL

 

[Morrgan]

Ack, how confusing.

Hmmm, since I've apparently used US gallons so far, I may as well continue with those. (On these forums that is, I'll still think in litres and cms.) Although according to the aquarium converter (thanks for the link, platypus!) my larger tank is actually closer to 34 gallons, not 32 as I thought.

The reason I started wondering was that I was checking up on this in the English aquarium books I have, and they both talk about Imperial gallons. I'm thinking about making a fishy website where I'd use both litres and gallons (as well as cm/inch and degrees C/F) and I'm not sure which I should use. I'm still not sure, as it seems both Imperial and US are used here. Any advise for which to use on a website?

 

[Alien Anna]

Anyone who has trained as a scientist must have some sympathies with MrV's POV. Even American scientists use SI units! The reason being that in order to communicate internationally, they use standardised units: a litre is a litre, is 1000 cc's, is 1000 mls in every country on earth. A gallon could be 3.8 litres, or 4.5 litres or however many someone in that country decided.

Don't you think its about time you Americans caught up with the rest of the world?

 

[Sondan]

LOL Anna,
I do agree but we are Americans and we rule the world. If we switched to metrics it would mean we like all of you Anyways we are so much NON metric that in college I still don't know how much a liter is.
Signed,
Sondan
P.S. My wife's maiden name is Cheshire so I HAVE to love you Brits

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> Even American scientists use SI units!

Of course you've got to laugh at them though, they spend $327.6 million on the Mars Climate Orbiter space craft then crash it because one group worked in Newtons and another in Pounds.

I was quite astonished when this was revealled.

>>> who wants to drink 565 mls of beer

If it's decent English Real Ale, I don't care if it comes in a bucket or a five metre line of egg cups - got to be better than the cold tasteless fizzy yellow stuff you get in the rest of the world.

 

[aquamanis]

And I'm sorry Beer *MUST* be sold in pints.... not like that fizzy stuff the Germans and Aussies make everyone else drink.....LOL

What stuff might that be? Not Fosters I hope. Thats the stuff we send to the rest of the world because we wont touch it here. Many of my English rele,s and friends comment on how nice our beer is here when they come for a holiday. As far as cold beer goes, on a 44 degree day when the outside sun might be 60c plus, are you telling me you would rather drink hot beer. Dont think so.

 

[mrV]

Of course you've got to laugh at them though, they spend $327.6 million on the Mars Climate Orbiter space craft then crash it because one group worked in Newtons and another in Pounds.

I was quite astonished when this was revealled.

I wasn't only astonished, I was really amused too

I still don't know how much a liter is.

Make a cube which is 10cm long, wide and high -> Then you have object which is 1 liter (volume)

 

[ade]

And a 1 litre (note it's litres not liters!) of water would also weigh 1kg. Don't know why that would be handy except for moving tanks from room to room.

 

[mrV]

note it's litres not liters!

Liter is american english
litre is english

 

[Lateral Line]

>>> What stuff might that be?

What do you have in WA aquamanis? When I was in Aus, it seemed the beer varied by state. I've drunk Fosters, Castlemaine, Carlton, Tooheys, Swan, Cascade, VB, (several varieties of each), but they are all pretty much "lager" to me.

The best beer I had in Aus was from a microbrewery called The Pumphouse in the middle of a large park in Sydney, (a park filled with numerous modern art pieces and sculptures - can't remember the name of the park).

You tried real English Ale from a hand pulled tap AM? (Not often 44C in England!).

 

[Alien Anna]

note it's litres not liters!

Liter is american english
litre is english

Sorry, but you started the pedantry:

It's English, not english!

 

[akhtar]

im from england and all this gallon stuff has made me waaay better at maths and gallons and stuff, its pretty usefull!

 

[mrV]

It's English, not english!

For me english = english, like finnish = finnish. Only names are written using capital letters And if We lived in German, We would write Every Substantive starting with Capital-letters.

So, no, no.. Only calpitals when starting new sentence or with names. Probably philologists aren't so happy B)

 

[khs666]

AM, even if it was 44 degrees (I presume you mean C not F - it's about 44 F here this morning and all I wanted was a hot cup of Tea - shall we start on Tea v Coffee now?!!!! ) I'd still want a decent drink.... and I'm afraid I'm with Lateral Line Real Ale is best esp hand pulled, Lager - wherever you drink it - is frankly fizzy tap water..... ( I was going to describe it slightly differently but there are ladies present...)