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Old May 31st 10, 06:40 PM posted to uk.railway,misc.transport.urban-transit,uk.transport.london
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On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:23:41 +0100, I put finger to keyboard and typed:

Not peas, and it's the other way round, actually - the Imperial pint is the
more logical one. A pint has always been 1/8 of a gallon, but there were
traditionally different gallons for different substances. A US pint is
derived from the British wine gallon, which was defined in 1701 as 231 - so
it was current at the time of US independence.

That's 231 cubic inches, of course. Dunno how that got left out of the
previous post.

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