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In article <004e01c43522$035d8fc0$6400a8c0@NikNote>,
   Julian Nikadie <j@...> wrote:
> Something isn't quite right here ...

> > Also "a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter" (Standard rhyme
> which
> > used to be memorised by all school children) so 20 fluid ounces of
> water
> > (1 pint) weighs 16 ounces Av.

> If a pint of water weighs 16 ounces and that is a pound and a quarter, a
> pound must equal 12.8 ounces. According to my conversion program:

<SNIP>

> Am I missing something?

No. I am a Numpty! 

Comes of trying to do arithmatic in the head whilst being spoken to by
wife and realising I was about to be late for an appointment!

A pound and a quarter is 16*1.25 = 20 oz AV
 so as you rightly say 1 floz of water weighs 1oz.

Stuart.