Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:33:08 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-03-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
 

On Sun, 02 Mar 2025 23:12:27 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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When Canada went metric they blew gas mileage completely out of the
water by turning the equation upside-down, changing from miles per
gallon to litres per 100 km.  You can't just apply a simple conversion
factor.

>
I got adept at translating 100 kph road signs into mph

 
Me too.  Being a computer nerd working in hexadecimal all the time
helped - I just read the numbers off my old miles-per-hour speedometer
as if they were hex.
 

                                                       but I gave up
completely on cents per liter of gas including the exchange rate. With
Imperial gallons I figured I was getting a bargain; with liters I
figured I was getting screwed.

>

I don't remember the exchange rate in the '90s but $100 US would get me a
wad of colorful Canadian bills and a looney or two. I just looked up the
exchange rate and it's even worse now.

It wasn't as bad as when the peso was in the sewer. I bought a lemonade
from a street vendor and gave him a US dollar. I held out my hand and he
started filling it with coins, looking at me to see if I was satisfied. I
got quite a collection that was probably worth 13 cents.

That got a bit more complicated.  3.8 liters to the U.S. gallon, OK, but
the exchange rate muddied the waters.