<OT> Re: Unity ROCKS not!!!

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 10:15 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
> 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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OK - Here is the answer to everything...

5 quarts = 1.25 gallons, be they US or British Gallons.

1 British gallon = 1.2 US gallons.

so, as has been said before, 1 British gallon = 4.8 US quarts.

I won't go on any more as I see that Basil has already said it all.

Here in the UK, gallons are only used in the context of fuel
consumption, i.e. miles per gallon, because no-one has yet been able to
get their head round the metric standard of litres per 100km. All motor
fuel is dispensed in litres.

For the record, my car does around 54 miles per UK gallon, equivalent to
about 45 miles per US gallon.  It is, of course, a diesel car, hence my
reference to 'fuel' rather then 'petrol'.  About 25% of cars in the UK
are diesel fuelled now.

Tony