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Originally Posted by Analogus
You are more than right. I ever wondered why the sizes feel so 'unexpected'...
Maybe because Amazon comes from the USA? 
In Europe, for example, units are very simple. There is (not Great Britain, but this is another storry) simple always a 10^n between different units. 10, 100, 1000, ...
1 Kilogramm is 1000 Gramm, 1 Meter is 10 Dezimeter or 100 Zentimeter, ...
Have a look at the unit-conversion between inches, miles, gramm, grain, ounces, pounds, yards, gallons, ... 
THAT is random.
Just joking!  |
Well you nailed that on the head.
12 inches = 1 foot 5280 feet= 1 mile 36 inches = a yard.
8 ounces =1 cup 2 cups = a pint 2 pints= 1 quart 4 quarts= 1 gallon.
I'm not even going to get into grains, grams, teaspoons and tablespoons.
Not to mention dry cups measure different from liquid cups.
I attempted to make it less random and failed.