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CVS commit: src/usr.bin/units



Module Name:    src
Committed By:   groo
Date:           Tue Feb  1 01:08:10 UTC 2005

Modified Files:
        src/usr.bin/units: units.lib

Log Message:
A hogshead is defined in the U.S. to be 63 gallons, and otherwise refers
to a volume unit of varying capacity (betwen 63 and 140(!)) gallons.

Since the U.S. is the only place it is defined, and I can find little
evidence to support the "barrel" definition, make it 63 gallons.

Like everything, this was prompted by the Simpsons.

"The metric system is a tool of the devil!  My car gets 40 rods to the
 hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"

                -- Abe Simpson


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cvs rdiff -r1.12 -r1.13 src/usr.bin/units/units.lib

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