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So, Jason and I had a discussion about metric system Monday tonight. The discussion started when we were watching CSI and they said that there are 8 pints of blood in the human body. We tried to figure out some that we should already know like how many pints in a quart (see above) and so on. We then had a discussion about what the equivalents are in the metric system...gallons to liters and so on.
The weird part is that Tuesday night on my way home from class, I was listening to Clark Howard on talk radio. He was talking about a number of different topics, but one in particular was the gas mileage of different vehicles. There was a caller from Britain, and he mentioned that over there they had recently changed all the gas stations to display metric instead of the American? system. So they of course started trying to convert gallons to liters and Clark said that there are 3.85 liters in a gallon. Just what we talked about last night!
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