<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 05/12/2011 09:45 AM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20110512094513.636f7068@WizardsTower" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 12 May 2011 15:13:48 +0100 Tony Pursell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk"><ajp@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 08:02 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, 11 May 2011 23:26:54 -0700 Ernest Doub <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hideserted@gmail.com"><hideserted@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">1.2 US Gallons = 5 US Quarts = 1 Imperial Gallon What I stated originally. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No! it is 1.20095 US gallons to one British gallon. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP">http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Measurement/Converter.ASP</a> Put in 'British gallon' to Convert From: and 'gallon' (on its own, because this is a US site) to Convert To: Tony </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">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: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">1.2 US Gallons = 5 US Quarts... </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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 </pre> </blockquote> This is just becoming picking nits. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- "A good moral character is the first essential in a man." George Washington _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._</pre> </body> </html>