Liters to Methuselahs (L to methuselah)

1 liter equals 0.1666666667 methuselahs (rounded).

1 liter = 0.1666666667 methuselahs

How to convert liters to methuselahs

To convert liters to methuselahs, multiply the number of liters by 0.1666666667. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply methuselahs by 6.

methuselahs = liters × 0.1666666667

Example: 10 liters = 1.666666667 methuselahs.

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

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Methuselah (methuselah)

Cooking & barCurrent unit

6 liters, eight standard bottles.

Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible and grandfather of Noah, lends his name to a bottle of 6 liters, equal to eight standard 750 mL bottles. Wikipedia's table lists it as Imperial or Methuselah, since the same size is also called an imperial, and notes that bottle names of this kind are not applied consistently everywhere.

The naming pattern is a trade tradition rather than a rule of law. Most of the large Champagne formats borrow names of biblical kings and figures: Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Salmanazar, Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar. The same article says the sizes section needs better sources, and in places the origins are unclear, so claims about who first used them should be treated cautiously. In practice a Methuselah is rare outside special occasions. A magnum is 1.5 L and a Methuselah four times that, about 202.9 US fluid ounces.

1 methuselah = 6 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Wine bottle

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