Gō to US Gallons (gō to gal)
1 gō equals 0.04765417714 US gallons (rounded).
How to convert gō to US gallons
To convert gō to US gallons, multiply the number of gō by 0.04765417714. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US gallons by 20.9845193 (rounded).
US gallons = gō × 0.04765417714
Example: 10 gō = 0.4765417714 US gallons.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
About these units
Gō (gō)
A tenth of a shō, about 180.39 mL. Rice is still sold and cooked by the gō.
Gō is the smallest of the everyday Japanese dry and liquid measures, one tenth of a shō. Its exact size under the 1891 law is 2401/13,310 L, about 180.4 mL, matching the figure used here.
Rice is the unit's natural home. A gō is regarded as an appropriate serving of rice or sake, and electric rice cookers sold in Japan come with a measuring cup of exactly this size, so recipes still call for rice by the gō.
Since the 1959 Measurement Act the gō has had no legal standing in trade, but the cup survives in kitchens. Compared with a US cup of about 237 mL, it is a noticeably smaller measure, which is worth remembering when converting rice recipes.
1 gō = 0.1803906837 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Japanese units of measurement; Japanese Wikipedia: Sho
US Gallon (gal)
Exactly 231 cubic inches or 3.785411784 liters (128 US fluid ounces). About 17% smaller than the imperial gallon.
The US gallon is a survivor of English wine trade. Around 1706, a statute in Queen Anne's reign fixed the wine gallon at exactly 231 cubic inches, settling confusion among the competing gallons for wine, ale and corn. British colonies in North America used that wine gallon, and in 1824 Britain replaced all its gallons with a new imperial one while the United States kept the old measure. It was adopted as the legal US standard in 1836 and is still defined as exactly 231 cubic inches, or 3.785411784 liters.
That makes the US gallon about 17 percent smaller than the imperial gallon, a difference that explains why American and British fuel-economy figures cannot be compared directly. Everyday uses are milk jugs, paint cans and gasoline pumps. One gallon divides evenly into four quarts, eight pints, sixteen cups and 128 fluid ounces. A gallon of water weighs a little over 8 pounds, an easy figure to remember when loading a car with water jugs.
1 US gallon = 3.785411784 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Gallon; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
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