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Subject: Re: OT: Converting miles/km
From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Reply-To: jjlxa31@xs4all.nl (J. J. Lodder)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:46:41 +0200
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charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:

> In article <vd0i4n$3kc45$1@dont-email.me>,
>    Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
> > lar3ryca wrote:
> 
> > >>>>          50 km = 30 mi
> > >>>>          80 km = 50 mi
> > >>>>        110 km = 70 mi (2 km too much)
> > >>>>        130 km = 80 mi
> > >>>
> > >>> 'mi' should be 'MPH'.
> > >> 
> > >> No. km ~ mi
> > > 
> > > Definitely not. A kilometre is not a speed, and a mile is not a speed.
> 
> > Really? What a surprise.
> 
> > I haven't said that they were. I showed conversion between two length
> > units. The intelligent reader would then immediately know that the same
> > conversion can be use by speeds.
> 
> at least both measurement systems us the same time units.

Unfortunately, yes.
It would have been much better if the decimal seconds
had been succesfully introduced.

Jan

-- 
BTW, the weatherman in these parts uses 'Beaufort',
pronounced as if the admiral had been a Frenchman.
'Everyone' knows that storms begin at Beaufort seven,
few know with how many m/s or km/h that corresponds.