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Re:Battery Swap [video] by mikeash on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:27AM (#5918168)
Note that imperial gallons are substantially larger than the regular kind. A 10 imperial gallon tank holds 12 US gallons, and so 700 miles from a 10 imperial gallon tank is actually about 58MPG. Still very high, of course.
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Re:Battery Swap [video] by loup-vaillant on Friday June 21, 2013 @08:29PM (#5921970)
Nitpick: regular kind? That's quite… culture centric.

The only "regular" capacity unit that I know of comes from a deliberate attempt to normalize every units. Namely, the Litre from the metric system.

Smug Frenchman

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Re:Battery Swap [video] by mikeash on Friday June 21, 2013 @08:44PM (#5922022)
It's not my fault that one of the units is just the name of the other unit with a modifier. It's not like "gallon" is shorthand for something longer and more formal.
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Re:Battery Swap [video] by chockablock on Friday June 21, 2013 @10:34PM (#5922328)
Hint: when an Englishman walks into a pub, he doesn't order an 'imperial pint' of beer...
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Re:Battery Swap [video] by btbuilder on Saturday June 22, 2013 @12:03AM (#5922536)
imperial gallon & US gallon?

Or maybe more interesting but historical "ale gallon" and "wine gallon".

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