<OT> Re: Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Billie Walsh]

On 05/12/2011 09:45 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:13:48 +0100
> Tony Pursell<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>  wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 08:02 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 May 2011 23:26:54 -0700
>>> Ernest Doub<hideserted at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1.2 US Gallons = 5 US Quarts = 1 Imperial Gallon
>>>> What I stated originally.
>>> That's obviously wrong as a US gallon is equal to 4 US quarts
>>> making 5 US quarts equal to 1.25 US gallons, not 1.2.  There is no
>>> need to look it up at all.  It is why they're called, "quarts."
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>> No! it is 1.20095 US gallons to one British gallon.  See
>>
>> http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP
>>
>> Put in 'British gallon' to Convert From: and 'gallon' (on its own,
>> because this is a US site) to Convert To:
>>
>> Tony
>>
> Read again (right up there un-snipped) what it was that Ernest actually
> wrote. It was not about conversion but measurement.  He stated that
> 1.2 /US/ gallons was equal to 5 /US/ quarts, a blatant impossibility no
> matter whether either is equal to however many Imperial gallons.
>
> Here, I'll paste it in for you:
>>>> 1.2 US Gallons = 5 US Quarts...
> Heck, do the math.
>
> 1 gallon = 4 quarts
> 5 quarts divided by four quarts = 1.25 gallons    (not 1.2)
>
> I understand that they are very close to the same but, "equal," has its
> own peculiarity that doesn't lend itself to approximation.
>
> Cybe R. Wizard

This is just becoming picking nits.

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