US Pints to Cubic Feet (pt to ft³)
1 US pint equals 0.01671006944 cubic feet (rounded).
How to convert US pints to cubic feet
To convert US pints to cubic feet, multiply the number of US pints by 0.01671006944. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cubic feet by 59.84415584 (rounded).
cubic feet = US pints × 0.01671006944
Example: 10 US pints = 0.1671006944 cubic feet.
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 Pint (pt)
One eighth of a US gallon, 473.176 mL (16 US fluid ounces). The US pint is about 17% smaller than the imperial pint.
Pint seems to come from Old French pinte, possibly from a Latin word meaning painted, perhaps because capacity marks were painted on containers. British North America inherited the 231-cubic-inch wine gallon around 1707, and the US liquid pint was derived from it as one eighth. After Britain adopted the imperial gallon in 1824, American and British pints parted ways for good.
Today the US liquid pint is exactly 28.875 cubic inches, or 473.176473 milliliters. The imperial pint, at 568.26125 mL, is about 20 percent larger. That is why a pint of beer in an American bar is a lesser drink than a pint in an English pub, and why recipes from different countries cannot swap pints blindly. In the US a pint is a common size for ice cream, cream and craft beer, and a separate US dry pint of about 550.6 milliliters measures blueberries and cherry tomatoes.
1 US pint = 0.473176473 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pint; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
Cubic Foot (ft³)
Exactly 28.316846592 liters (1,728 cubic inches). Used for refrigerator capacity, gas volume and shipping.
Cubic foot grew from the foot itself, a length unit with ancient origins, cubed into a volume of 1,728 cubic inches. Since the international foot was fixed at exactly 0.3048 meters, it equals exactly 28.316846592 liters. It sits at the center of the Anglo-American cubic system, a cube you could build from twelve-inch rulers, and it is about 7.48 US gallons or 6.23 imperial gallons.
In practice the cubic foot is the language of capacity and flow. Natural gas and household water are often billed per hundred cubic feet, written CCF, while gas reserves are reported in thousands and trillions of cubic feet. Rivers are measured in cubic feet per second, called cusecs, and fans and air compressors are rated in cubic feet per minute. To picture one, imagine a box a foot on each side holding a bit under seven and a half gallon jugs of water.
1 cubic foot = 28.31684659 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cubic foot; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume
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