litres and gallons

[The-Wolf]

this is doing my nut!

1 gallon [UK] = 4.54609 liter
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 3.7854118 liter
which means imperial gallons are bigger than US gallons
however
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 0.8326742 gallon [UK]
what on earth is going on here?

taken from http/www.onlineconversion.com/volume.htm

oh for those that don't know the USA has a different gallonge for dry goods
1 gallon [US, liquid] = 0.859367 gallon [US, dry]

 

[SirMinion]

I don't understand your confusion

One US gallon equals 0.8 of an imperial gallon.

In other words, one US gallon is four-fifths the size of a imperial gallon

In other words, one US gallon is one fifth smaller than a imperial gallon.

In other words, one US gallon is 80% the size of an imperial gallon.

In other words, one US gallon is 20% smaller than an imperial gallon.

Where's the confusion?

 

[Karah's_Mommy]

1 gallon [US, liquid] = 0.8326742 gallon [UK]

In other words:

1 US gallon = 83.26742% of 1 UK gallon

or it would take:

(estimating) 1.17 US gallon = 1 UK gallon

Hope this clears it up for you

 

[@ombomb]

I think it's time everyone got used to thinking in litres!

 

[tttnjfttt]

I think it's time everyone got used to thinking in litres!

I took a lot of science classes in college, so I became really familiar with the metric system. Whats sad is even though I've graduated and was a maths major, I know nothing about the US system and how the different units interrelate. For measuring fish medicine, I routinely go by the ml rather than by teaspoon. I honestly wish there was a constant system.

EDIT: 1 AM is too late for me to be typing coherently today...edited to make it make sense.

 

[ncjharris]

I still work in pecks and quarts.............................

No wonder I have trouble dosing my meds!!

And wheres the converstion to fluid ounces?

 

[Miss Dib Dabs]

I have to agree with tttnjfttt. There really should be a system that is worldwide to avoid stupid mistakes and confusion. I work in litres. I can cope with them.
Hugs,
P.

 

[Bloo]

I think it's time everyone got used to thinking in litres!

Ahmen !

 

[@ombomb]

There really should be a system that is worldwide to avoid stupid mistakes and confusion.

It's called the metric system, we just waiting for the US to catch up

 

[Angry_Platy]

Ha ha. It may ve called the metric system but I only talk US gallons when referring to my tank. Like when I talk about my tanks at work I say "I got new fish for my30gal" and they look at them blankly then tell them measurements in inches. I talk about fish length in inches and tank length.....Bf F gets mad at me all the time

 

[qwikimpss]

The metric system is nice, altho i cant approximate a liter, i CAN approximate a US gallon....always thought that way. The system over here suck, fluid ounces...I DONT EVEN KNOW HOW MANY ARE IN A GALLON!!! then you got cups and quarts and...a buncha junk!!!! But i dont think we'll be converting to the metric system any time soon...which is sad, i say we change fluid measurement over to metric but keep distance in miles and feet...etc...

 

[lilmisstrouble]

flippin americans.... always making things complicated!!

 

[OohFeeshy]

LOL. I tend to work in gallons (as you have most of the stocking guidelines etc. for those), but have no idea about fluid ounces. If I'm working out DIY tanks, I work in litres, and I generally say 1 us gallon is 4 litres and 1 uk gallon is 5 litres.

 

[abstract]

who really cares in this day and age where Google (and millions other websites, devices, services) does all the work for you?

type in

xx liters/inches/pounds/blah blah blah to gallons/centimeters/kilos/blah blah blah
(i.e. 10 liters to us gallons, or 10 liters to uk gallons and so on)

and you got your answer....soon conversions will be built into all cell phones and probably the smart wallets we'll be seeing soon enough...hell, they'll probably even have built in translators and everything else you can imagine to bridge cultural gaps...

personally i am able to estimate the approximate values from having to go to goole so often...now when i see 180 liters i know approx. what it is...and i know approx what 15 centimeters looks like, etc....i think it is just as useful to be able to use both systems to explain ones self since you never know who you will encounter where...just my 2 cents

on a side note..why are 99% of the road signs in florida (and texas/arizona/new mexico i believe, although i have never been there) in english AND spanish? i mean THIS IS AMERICA and we can't even begin to think about standardization in our own country due to cultural differences! good luck standardizing the world

EDIT: and i really can't believe how egocentric the rest of the world is in this thread! how bout you think about how hard it would be to change your entire countries method of measuring EVERYTHING from size, to volume, to distance and so on. then you try it...most americans cant even estimate/measure/do maths with our own measurement system - imagine them having to learn something entirely new even if it is "phased in" over several years (which is the only way it would work and even then i doubt it)...it's not that we are too stubborn, or think our way is right and yours is wrong although that is the typical stereotype used, just that it is hard enough to teach people the current system

much later EDIT #2: /end rant