One pint equals how many fluid ounces?

Answer 1

16 oz = 1 pint

Yes, in the US a pint is 16 fluid ounces ("fl oz").

In the UK a pint is 20 fl oz, but

1 Imperial -UK- fluid ounce (Imp fl oz) is about 4% smaller than the US fl oz, so that:

1 Imp pint = about 19.2 US fl oz, and

1 US pint = about 16.7 Imp fl oz.

This is all because the Imperial gallon has 160 fl oz, and was defined as the volume of 10 pounds of water. The US gallon which has 128 fl oz was defined as 231 cubic inches, which supposedly is the volume of 8 pounds of wine.

6 US gallons are almost exactly equal to 5 Imperial gallons (error is about 0.08%).

1 US pint = 473 ml, and

1 Imp pint = 568 ml.

Now don't you wish we used the metric system ??