@futurebird It was interesting. I guessed 200ml on the basis of a chain of rough mental estimations, based on the relation between fluid and weight ounces, pounds and kilograms, and kilograms and liters of water. The rounding errors got me. But the correct result is close to the boundary.
@futurebird (I have never been able to think intuitively in any kind of ounces, even though they show up in recipes and packaging all the time. I have a much tighter grasp of milliliters and grams. I think metric is much more comprehensible for very small quantities because it works by consistently subdividing bigger ones.)
@mattmcirvin@futurebird To make things really fun, the rocks are measured with different ounces to everything else. Rock ounces are bigger than normal ounces, but there are fewer of them in a rock pound, which means that rock pounds are smaller than normal pounds.
@futurebird I knew because I measure everything in Coke bottles. Back in the day, they used to be pints (16 fluid ounces) and then they switched to 500ml.
I'm not kidding about Coke bottles. It turns out that Coke bottles are also a great way to measure inflation.
@futurebird
unhelpfully, the us customary fluid ounce and the british imperial fluid ounce are not quite the same; the imperial is about 1 ml smaller .
edit: I forgot to add that in this case, it doesn't affect answers to the poll.
@futurebird my rule of thumb is that a liter is about the same as a quart. a nalgene bottle has quart and liter markings at the top, almost the same. so 8oz is ~1/4 of a liter
@futurebird
I feel like most Canucks have an advantage here - we've been using both measuring systems since the 60's. While we're officially metric, the majority of people measure certain things in imperial:
Body weight (in lbs instead of kilos)
Body height (in feet/inches)
Drugs (this is weirdly interchangable. We'll sell by the gram up to 28, then it's an ounce)
@futurebird So, you see, back in the previous millennium, the Americans and the British were so confused by the units that they used that they had to invent devices called computers to help them figure them out, and that's why we have ceiling cat.
@futurebird oh yes, had to deal with that all my work life... Built a factory for plastic film based on a machine from Germany, the machine was all metric (imperial would have added $5 million in cost). We converted the length of spools from meter to yard, then to pounds of plastic. Sold it to Korea, where they converted pounds to Kg, then to meter again. And then wondered why there always were errors in bookkeeping
@futurebird Many years of studying soda and beer cans have taught me that 12 fluid ounces is close enough to 350 ml for government work. And I know a liter is just over a quart.
@futurebird none of the above because ounces are mass and ml are volume (I know what you mean really, and I have no clue off the top of my head, does doing sums in my head count as looking it up?)
@futurebird the sum i would do is that there are 20 fl oz in a pint, and 1.76 pints (or 35 fl oz) in a litre, so 1 fl oz is a bit under 30 ml, so 8 fl oz is a bit under 240 ml, so the answer is 250.
@futurebird My high school chemistry teacher wrote on the board —
“JALMTAQ”
because a liter is
“Just A Little More Than A Quart”
and this has served me well for the last 45 years
@futurebird I had the wrong idea yet guessed right. I thought 8oz was close to a small can of soda (330ml), so I would've guessed 350 if I'd gone with my first instinct, but then I started doubting and went with a gut feeling instead.
@futurebird I literally have no idea, imperial measurements are a complete mystery to me, I just approximately know how much a foot is cause I know 10 ft is about 3 meters and I know my height in feet and inches cause I lived in the UK for a few years haha