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[Varche]

I think you can but stand ready to be disproved

Here goes.

A pint= 473 cc approx

So if your "pot" was a sheet of metal 69cm square with a lip of 1mm it would have volume of 476 cc approx i.e.about a pint.

If you then gently poured water onto the sheet, just before the water overflowed, and due to surface tension, the surface of the water would be well above top of the lip. I don't know what the meniscus height for water is but it's got to be several mm. So you could probably get half a gallon in.

I could be well out on the maths but I think the principle is valid.


 

[Gaffers]

Bored?

[Richie London]

Bored?

obviously 

[Andy B]

I think you can but stand ready to be disproved

Here goes.

A pint= 473 cc approx

So if your "pot" was a sheet of metal 69cm square with a lip of 1mm it would have volume of 476 cc approx i.e.about a pint.

If you then gently poured water onto the sheet, just before the water overflowed, and due to surface tension, the surface of the water would be well above top of the lip. I don't know what the meniscus height for water is but it's got to be several mm. So you could probably get half a gallon in.

I could be well out on the maths but I think the principle is valid.

Fell at the first hurdle!  An Imperial pint is 568 ml/cc, maybe a US pint is only 473ml  I know it's smaller ie 16fl oz instead of 20fl oz but never considered what an 'American' pint is in metric 

[Del Boy]

I'm very well & truly lost in here 

[Varche]

Bored?

Quite possibly although today is packed with excitement. It is the only day each month that you can upgrade or downgrade your bandwidth on Telco services in Spain. Predicatbly I am on hold in a Queue waiting as "all our operators are busy"

Blast I thought I would remember stuff like furlongs, chains, imperial measures and so on. They have weird measures of area and the like in rural Spain. One is the fanegas. It seems to vary in size depending on who you talk to.

[Omega32E]

Ok sad I know but its that time of year again and work is always slow.

Quart / a unit of liquid capacity equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints, equivalent in Britain to approximately 1.13 litres and in the US to approximately 0.94 litre.

1 US pint = 473.176473 millilitres.

[Richie London]

If you get a piece of string and cut it in half, you would get 2 pieces of string.

[Turk]

If you get a piece of string and cut it in half, you would get 2 pieces of string.

...and even more amazingly, you would now have not just two ends....but four !!