Re: OT: Converting miles/km

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.