US Gallons to US Dry Pints (gal to dry pt)
1 US gallon equals 6.874936059 US dry pints (rounded).
How to convert US gallons to US dry pints
To convert US gallons to US dry pints, multiply the number of US gallons by 6.874936059. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US dry pints by 0.1454558983 (rounded).
US dry pints = US gallons × 6.874936059
Example: 10 US gallons = 68.74936059 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
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
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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