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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: Household Algebra
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 09:30:20 -0400
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On 5/2/24 6:58 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
> That's an oddity to UK cooks.  You rarely ever measure things in cups.
> Liquid are measured by volume - usually millilitres - and dry goods are
> measured by weight - grams.  (Well, technically mass, but let's not go
> there, especially with in the US a pound is a unit of force, whereas in
> the UK, it's a unit of mass, and the Imperial unit of force is the
> poundal, the force needed to accelerate one pound mass by one foot per
> second per second.)

I thought the Imperial unit of force was the star destroyer.

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