From: "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@...>
Date: 2006-10-08T13:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Cooking conversion table / library?

hadley wickham wrote:
>> The ruby-units gem can handle all sorts of unit conversions.  I'm
>> pretty sure the standard cooking measurements are pre-defined.
>>
>> '1 floz'.to 'cups'
>> => 0.125 cu
> 
> Yes, but are those American or English cups?    American, I'm
> guessing, but English cup sizes are different (236ml in American,
> 250ml in British)

The floz was different between US and Imperial in the first place.

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John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
   -- Charles Williams.  "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"