On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:16:23 -0800, VWWall
wrote:

Stuart wrote:
In article ,
Spehro Pefhany wrote:
(careful, the default "gallon" is some kind of undersized quaint wine
gallon for unknown reasons).

Cos it's the US gallon and the yanks own google :-)

Worse than that, when the US changed liquor bottles to metric, they made
a half-gallon into 1.75 liters! Looks the same size, but lost a bit of
booze!

Google: 1.75 liters in half gallons

1.75 liters = 0.924602183 half US gallons

Google: (1 - 0.924602183 ) half gallons in fluid ounces

(1 - 0.924602183) * (half US gallons) = 4.82546029 US fluid ounces

This one is fun:

Google: 12 U in mm