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minus-squareDMCMNFIBFFF@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-26 months agoGood point, but GPHM has more syllables, and GPM makes it sound small; but still, maybe 50, 25, 15, and 10 MPG could be expressed as 0.02, 0.04, <0.07, and 0.1 GPM.
minus-squareMetaSynapse@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoJust drop the M - GPH/gallons per hundred is just as short and easy to say as MPG. In Australia we say “litres per hundred”, there’s no point specifying kilometres because what else would it be?
minus-squareDMCMNFIBFFF@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months ago“x ℓ/100” maybe. maybe “x mL/km” (“x milliliters/km”)—as in “80 mL/km” or maybe “x kL/Mm” (“x kiloliters/megameters”)—as in 0.8 kL or 800ℓ/Mm" I have to think about it. 🤔
Good point, but GPHM has more syllables, and GPM makes it sound small;
but still, maybe 50, 25, 15, and 10 MPG could be expressed as 0.02, 0.04, <0.07, and 0.1 GPM.
Just drop the M - GPH/gallons per hundred is just as short and easy to say as MPG.
In Australia we say “litres per hundred”, there’s no point specifying kilometres because what else would it be?
“x ℓ/100”
maybe.
maybe “x mL/km” (“x milliliters/km”)—as in “80 mL/km”
or
maybe “x kL/Mm” (“x kiloliters/megameters”)—as in 0.8 kL or 800ℓ/Mm"
I have to think about it. 🤔