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a3w
17 days ago
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The most official water costs $120k a gallon
How much volume is that for the rest of the world? Really unscientific article.
strictnein
17 days ago
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0.0001587302 hogsheads 256 tablespoons 231 cubic inches
Ekaros
16 days ago
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Wouldn't 256 in proper tablespoons be 3840 ml?
eimrine
17 days ago
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why do you consider the cubic inches will be useful to the rest of the world (world who does not use galons)?
sgerenser
16 days ago
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Yeah, they should have stopped at hogsheads, which is a well understood quantity worldwide.
cozzyd
16 days ago
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Without cubic furlongs I don't have a good intuition for the amount
colechristensen
17 days ago
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Unless you're actually measuring something with any importance, a gallon is about 4 liters. More closely 3.78541... But saying a quart and a liter are about equal is often good enough.
tedd4u
17 days ago
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As long as you also know a gallon is 4.0… quarts
colechristensen
17 days ago
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quart = quarter ... gallon
picofarad
16 days ago
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Wait till we learn what a fifth is!
tedd4u
16 days ago
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That one I know: it's 750ml
colechristensen
15 days ago
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And five of them is 1% less than a gallon.
jrflowers
17 days ago
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Just think of the largest container of ranch dressing that you’ve ever seen in a grocery store. It’s that much.
bulbar
17 days ago
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To be honest, if you live outside of the US the answer to that is more likely to be a liter (or less) than a gallon.
jrflowers
17 days ago
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In that case you can imagine the biggest container of ranch dressing you’ve ever seen in a grocery store, a gallon is a few of those
ajs1998
17 days ago
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I get your point but unless you actually need tritium water the number still means nothing lol.
fredoralive
16 days ago
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1 gallon is 0.832674 gallons. Or 1 gallon is 1.20095 gallons.
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