tbspn
oz
jill
gill
cup
pint
quart
half
gallon
peck
kenning
bushel
rundlet
barrel
hogshead
butt
tun
Where each item below the next item is exactly 2x the previous one. It turns out there's also some base-3 stuff (for measuring simplicity), like the teaspoon, etc.I've always imagined we could redefine a few things to make a "completely rational" U.S. customary measure. That'd be:
1 in == 2.5 centimeters (as Thomas Jefferson wanted)
256 in^3 == 1 gallon (water at 32° F)
1 in is a bit awkwardly small. A cup-inch is ~1.3ft. A pint-inch is exactly .8125m. Luckily, a 'tun-tun-inch' (65536in) is 1.0343 miles, so we could define a a 'tun-tun-inch' to be a mile, etc., etc.