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To: HartleyMBaldwin
How did we get sidetracked into liquid measures?

Probably because the solid measures are related: 16 oz = 2**4 = 1lb and 1/16 oz = 2**-4 oz = 1 dram.

37 posted on 02/28/2014 4:14:22 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Yes, I know that, “a pint’s a pound the world around” and all that, but it doesn’t really have anything to do with whether to keep measuring gold weights in troy ounces. I guess I’m not as fascinated with powers of two.

Anyway, they’re your proposed amendments. Personally, I’d like to see all of them enacted, even with the specification of avoirdupois weight for gold, but I’d like to win the Powerball lottery, too, and there’s just about as much likelihood of that.


46 posted on 02/28/2014 6:03:33 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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