Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: else ladders practice Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 11:58:49 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <3deb64c5b0ee344acd9fbaea1002baf7302c1e8f@i2pn2.org> <86y117qhc8.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86cyiiqit8.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86mshkos1a.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20241128143715.00003565@yahoo.com> <86wmglnvic.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86zflemb1k.fsf@linuxsc.com> <87plm5zo11.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2024 11:58:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3d70a089e9b4c724efce74b95c7b3acf"; logging-data="3198325"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+a0uL2lcGG1ZY1KHPfSEhG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:7G0ryxLGfRrTEqm+Ri0iCGXZR44= X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 In-Reply-To: <87plm5zo11.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Bytes: 2852 On 06.12.2024 00:51, Keith Thompson wrote: > Janis Papanagnou writes: >> On 02.12.2024 19:48, Bart wrote: > [...] >>> All I can suggest is that people have gone to some lengths to justify >>> having a car that can only travel at 3 mph around town, rather then 30 >>> mph (ie 5 vs 50 kph). >> >> (You certainly meant km/h.) > > Both "kph" and "km/h" are common abbreviations for "kilometers per > hour". Were you not familiar with "kph"? No. Must be a convention depending on cultural context of locality. ("kph", if anything, is "kilopond-hour, per standard.) So thanks for pointing that out. (I forget sometimes that in some countries there's a reluctance using the [established] standards, and I certainly don't know about all the cultural peculiarities of the [many] existing countries, even if they are as dominating as the USA is [or other English speaking or influenced countries].) We're used to the SI units and metric form, although hereabouts some folks also (informally, but wrongly) pronounce it as "k-m-h". Janis