In article <004e01c43522$035d8fc0$6400a8c0@NikNote>,
Julian Nikadie <
j@...> wrote:
> Something isn't quite right here ...
> > Also "a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter" (Standard rhyme
> which
> > used to be memorised by all school children) so 20 fluid ounces of
> water
> > (1 pint) weighs 16 ounces Av.
> If a pint of water weighs 16 ounces and that is a pound and a quarter, a
> pound must equal 12.8 ounces. According to my conversion program:
<SNIP>
> Am I missing something?
No. I am a Numpty!
Comes of trying to do arithmatic in the head whilst being spoken to by
wife and realising I was about to be late for an appointment!
A pound and a quarter is 16∗1.25 = 20 oz AV
so as you rightly say 1 floz of water weighs 1oz.
Stuart.