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Lengths aren't as important to farmers as volumes — those are base-2. Remember: 1790, not 1990.


a quart is a quarter of a gallon, an oz is a 32nd of a quart... eh I guess that makes sense.


Sadly, teaspoons to tablespoons has a jump of 3x, but other than that it's mostly binary with a few skips (e.g. there's not a real half gallon unit AFAIK, it's just "a half gallon", same for 2 fl oz). For some reason a barrel is 31.5 gallons instead of 32, with a hogshead being twice that at 63, but those are pretty rarely used.




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