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From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler)
Subject: Re: degrees Celsius
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In article <5c33go$mdo@news1.mnsinc.com> jav@osx2bbs.com (delete the x to reply) writes:
>
>Besides which, the US system is modern binary notation suited to the
>Information Age, which old-fashioned decimal metric is not.
>
>        1 gallon = 4 quarts
>        1 quart  = 2 pints
>        1 pint   = 2 cups
>        1 cup    = 2 gills
>        1 gill   = 4 ounces
>        1 ounce  = 2 tablespoons
>
>So there.

There are 3 tablespoons to the ounce.
