cubic gallons

[Joel S. Berson]

To fill the swimming pools of the non-poor refugees (oops,
evacuees)?  (The "dense packing" of mathematics".)

Joel

At 9/23/2005 07:47 AM, you wrote:
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>Someone else called me on this off-thread, and I confessed to having
>had another of those pesky "senior moments."
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>But the desperate need for millions of gallons of cube-shaped water
>remains a mystery.
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>JL
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>"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>At 9/22/2005 11:10 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >If the city is producing cubic gallons so as to freeze them as giant
> >ice cubes for giant drinks later, the question then would be just
> >when the "cubic" gallon is measured, as the volume would contract
> >somewhat when frozen.
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>The volume would increase somewhat when frozen, which is why ice
>floats on water. (One of only a few liquids, I think, that expands
>in the solid state.)
>
>Joel
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