Liters to US Dry Pints (L to dry pt)
1 liter equals 1.816165969 US dry pints (rounded).
How to convert liters to US dry pints
To convert liters to US dry pints, multiply the number of liters by 1.816165969. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US dry pints by 0.5506104714 (rounded).
US dry pints = liters × 1.816165969
Example: 10 liters = 18.16165969 US dry pints.
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)
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
US Dry Pint (dry pt)
One 64th of a US bushel (0.5506 L), larger than the liquid pint. Used for cherry tomatoes and berries.
Pint comes from Old French pinte, possibly traced to a word meaning painted, which would point to marks painted inside a container to show its capacity. In the British North American colonies two separate gallon systems ran side by side, one derived from the 231 cubic inch wine gallon for liquids and one from the corn gallon, an eighth of the Winchester bushel, for grain and produce.
The US dry pint belongs to the second system. It is one 64th of the US bushel, which is fixed at 2,150.42 cubic inches, so a dry pint is about 33.6 cubic inches, or roughly 550.6 millilitres (0.5506 L as used here). It is also half a dry quart and a sixteenth of a peck. Because the liquid pint is only about 473 millilitres, the dry pint is some 16 percent larger.
Today the unit survives mainly on packaging. Blueberries and similar small fruit in the United States and Canada are sold in containers labelled 1 US dry pint, with a bilingual label giving 551 millilitres. Britain dropped both older gallons in 1824, so the imperial pint is a different, larger measure again.
1 US dry pint = 0.5506104714 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pint; Wikipedia: Bushel
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