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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: Tablespoons (was: degrees Celsius)
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In article <KETIL.97Feb14094643@garm.kvatro.no>,
ketil@kvatro.no (Ketil Albertsen) writes:
> 
> - an exact cm3-definition of terms like teaspoon and tablespoon is
> certainly as important in Norwegian as in English. I read this thread
> in comp.st.internat, thinking that it certainly belongs there.

What a generous soul you are.  It certainly seems appropriate to a group
concerned with international standards, but computing standards?  Hmm.

> 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
the American floz is some 4% bigger than the British one.

Regrettably, even the British floz does not quite have the property that
one of water weighs an ounce, but it's close.
