Re: HP OmniGo - Change conversion from US gallons to UK

Michael Vezie (mlv@pobox.com)
Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:01:27 -0500

At 09:27 PM 12/13/96 GMT, Glen_Wilson@akamail.com wrote:
>I had a job today that involved converting the gallons scale on an old
>fuel tank into litres, so I grabbed my Omnigo and input the data into
>the Volume conversions function and the answer didn't look right, so I
>used 1 gallon instead and got 3.79 litres which is the answer for US
>gallons, NOT UK gallons which should be 4.55 Litres.
>I can't find any mention on this in the help files or Setup or any
>where else. Is there any way to change this to UK gallons?

I strongly doubt it...

I suggest you use the Solver. Just enter an equation that looks like:

UKGallons * 4.55 = Liters

Then you should be able to easily convert it.

That's one nice thing about the OGO... they give you a number of
different ways to do things (how many of you have a database set up
with your gift list? *my*hand*raised*).

>As a side note how is it that America ended up with a gallon smaller
>than the UK in the first place?? Anyone know?

Well, I think what happened was that when someone brought a gallon of
water over from England to America, they lost some due to evaporation. :)

Actually, I have no idea (but don't laugh too much about that -- as I
understand it (no joke this time), the reason why Farenheit is what it
is is because some cow had a fever one day (but I'm not positive, and
this discussion probably doesn't belong in this forum anyway)).

In Christ,
Michael
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