Fwd: cubic gallons

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/24/2005 11:08 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
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>Joel S. Berson wrote:
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> >Note that there is the "acre foot", a correctly formed measure, often
> >applied to rain- or flood-water.  I don't know how to relate it to
> >this excerpt, however.
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>I had noted it later on in the post.

Sorry, in the flood of cubic gallons, I had forgotten that.

>And found that it sometimes gets an extraneous "cubic" tacked on
>(probably, as Lawrence Horn and Arnold Zwicky have already suggested to
>indicate that it's a unit of volume).
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>Retrospectively, I imagine all the mysterious cubic acres are actually
>acre-feet.

But this is essentially what I wondered.

Joel

>Chris Waigl