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Can someone convert 40 rods to the hogshead to MPG for me?

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Walt2GPinPA said:
WITF are you talking about? :puzzled:
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He's reflecting teh metric thread asking for conversion to English units.

And a Simposon's episode:
In the episode of The Simpsons entitled ‘A Star is Burns’, Grampa Simpson uttered: “My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!” That translates into about 12 (beer) or 10-1/2 (wine) feet per gallon, or about 1.2 litres per metre!

1 rod = 11 cubits 16.5 feet

40 rods = 660 ft. = 1/8 mile

Hogsheads were small-sized containers in Colonial America = 1/2 barrels, = 63 gallons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead
 
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