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Dry gallon

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of volume that was used to measure grain and other dry commodities and whose earliest recorded official definition, in 1303, was the volume of 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of wheat. It is not used in the
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cubic inches. Since the bushel was later redefined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, 268.8025 became the exact value for the dry gallon (
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is about 14.1% smaller than the US dry gallon, while the Imperial fluid gallon is about 3.2% larger than the US dry gallon.
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of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an exact value of
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Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
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The dry gallon's implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the
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handbook that many US states recognize as the authority on measurement law.
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Summary of State Laws and Regulations in Weights and Measures
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101st Conference on Weights and Measures 2016. (2017).
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dry measure
US customary system
bushel
peck
quart
pint
National Institute of Standards and Technology
fluid gallon
Winchester bushel
irrational number
""How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement" by Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"
the original
Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Summary of State Laws and Regulations in Weights and Measures
Archived
Wayback Machine
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Stub icon
standards
measurement
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
Units of volume
Standards and measurement stubs

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