POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Question about imperial units : Re: Question about imperial units Server Time
5 Sep 2024 03:18:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Question about imperial units  
From: Warp
Date: 7 Nov 2009 13:43:10
Message: <4af5bfbd@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Warp schrieb:
> >   Another question:
> > 
> >   Is there a reason that 1 gallon is exactly 231 cubic inches? Was a gallon
> > first defined in terms of cubic inches? (And why such an arbitrary number
> > as 231?)
> > 
> >   Why no such round number with cubic feet? 1 gallon = 0.133680556 cubic feet.

> 231 cubic inch, actually.

  Isn't that what I said? Or are you saying that "cubic inches" is incorrect
and should instead be "cubic inch"?

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                                                          - Warp


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