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Old 05-12-18, 09:54 AM   #25
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Default Re: 1 million versus 1 billion

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Originally Posted by timwilky View Post
You damn colonials inventing your own units of measure!



Doh, the fancy calculator built by those clever Japanese chaps with the Litre<->Gallon functions only went and used those dodgy US gallons and not a proper Imperial one. Back to looking up the conversion factor in my book of useless information and using the fancy calculator as a calculator.
Those bloody colonials really pushed it when they started inventing their own screw thread forms!.....Joseph Whitworth must be turning in his grave!



Look up! You mean you didn't remember that 1 imperial gallon equals 4.54609 litres? BAH!
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