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From: Mike Dana <mike.dana@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
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Timothy Hunt wrote:
> 
> In article <E5LEvw.BMz.0.staffin.dcs.ed.ac.uk@dcs.ed.ac.uk>,
> Rainer Thonnes <rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> Then: Can anyone tell me how many cm3 is a "cup" - a term frequently
> >> encountered in American (and English?) recepie books?
> >
> >About 237 or 227.  A cup is 8 floz, but perhaps the founding fathers'
> >standard measuring vessel was dented in transit.  For some strange reason
> 
> A US cup is 8 fl.oz.  an Imperial (or British) cup is 10 fl.oz.
> 

A U.S. cup is 1/2 pint, which is 1/2 quart, which is 1/4 (U.S.) gallon.
Or, in other words, 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 cups = 128
ounces.
-- 
Mike Dana
Everett, Washington, U.S.A.
Views expressed by me are mine, not my employer's.
"One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness." --
C.S.Lewis
