Re: Your expert perspective...

[Rich Oesterling <ogr@inel.gov>]

On Sun, 1 Oct 1995, Alex Zapantis wrote:

> 
> >Well, "mileage" based on kilometers per gallon looks a lot better than 
> >"mileage" expressed as kilometers per liter.  :-)
>  
> Actually, in the SI world, fuel economy is most commonly expressed in litres
> per hundred kilometres.
> 
> Just for your information.
> 
> 
> 
>                         Alex Zapantis
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Hmmm - I would have guessed that in the SI world, the units would be 
steres per meter, not a collection of derived units. :-)

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