A pint of water is not one pound, its 1.04318, which is a significant difference.
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tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months agoAnd one pint of water is one pound.
You’ve completely missed the point, which is that most of the world measures ingredients (like flour for instance, where one pint is not one pound) by weight and not by volume.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 months ago
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In what widely-used context is a .04318 difference significant?
Not soup. Not bread.
I don’t think even concrete would suffer noticeably from that difference.
Specal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well that’s a 4.3% difference. I’d consider 4.3% significant
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Measuring by weight has only been a thing for cooking since digital scales became cheap.