Comment Re:English units? (Score 1) 748

by Glove93 on Tuesday January 27, 2004 @05:08AM (#8097927) Attached to: Another English/Metric "Spacecraft" Problem

And the base unit, the ounce, is the same.

Actually no, the ounce itself is different:

1 US fluid ounce in milliliters
1 Imperial fluid ounce in milliliters

an Imperial pint is then indeed 20 Imperial fluid ounces, and a US pint is 16 US fluid ounces.

I'll have a whatever pint of Black'N'Tan please! :-)

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