Sujet : Re: Household Algebra
De : garym (at) *nospam* mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 02. May 2024, 14:30:20
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On 5/2/24 6:58 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
That's an oddity to UK cooks. You rarely ever measure things in cups.
Liquid are measured by volume - usually millilitres - and dry goods are
measured by weight - grams. (Well, technically mass, but let's not go
there, especially with in the US a pound is a unit of force, whereas in
the UK, it's a unit of mass, and the Imperial unit of force is the
poundal, the force needed to accelerate one pound mass by one foot per
second per second.)
I thought the Imperial unit of force was the star destroyer.
-- Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
Household Algebra
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