SC - Phlip's Feast- Long Post

[Alderton, Philippa]

>"A pint's a pound, the world around". That's a pound as a measure of weight,
>not a currency unit ;^D.
>
>Aoife 

Tain't necessarily so.  A dry pint = 1/64 bushel.  A U.S. bushel =
2150.4 Cu. inches.  An Imperial bushel = 2219.4 cu. inches.  Weight in
either case would depend on the density of the material being wieghed.

As a point of interest, the U.S. uses the Winchester bushel which
equates to about 54 lbs of wheat and Great Britian uses the London
bushel which equates to about 60 lbs of wheat.  Both measures were in
use in medieval England, causing some interesting problems.

Both the U.S. and Great Britain use a 16 oz lb which are approximately
equivalent.  

The U.S. gallon is a wine gallon of 231 cu. inches or approximately 8
lbs.  The Imperial gallon is based on 10 lbs of pure water at 62 degrees
F equaling 277.42 cu. inches.

The liquid pint = 1/8 of a gallon = 16 oz. U.S. (1 lb.) = 20 oz.
Imperial (1.25 lb).

So a pint's a pound only if you're measuring a liquid with the density
of water in a U.S. 1 pint measuring cup.

Bear

P.S.  The pound as a measure of currency is a measure of weight with
variable value.  Dats da nature of economics. 
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