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Re: question about the metric system
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Fri, 3 May 2002 06:13:51 GMT
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"Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> writes:

Are you sure about this? I never heard about metric miles - AFAIK,
the biggest metric measure is the km; but I may be wrong...  Or is
this a "non-official" measure?  ;-)


It is probably a non-official measure, then.  It is common in the
Scandinavian countries.  Personally, I think that litres of petrol
consumption per 10 km is a bad measure, as it always amounts to point
something with modern cars.  It would have been better to use litres
per 100 km, as in Australia.


Fredrik



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(...) Oh, I see - we used to have the "Légua", which ranged from 5 to 25 km. (...) We use that - you don't? I thought the EU had a directive about it (they do about *everything* else.. ;-) Pedro (who illegally used a wooden spoon to cook dinner (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) ??? Are you sure about this? I never heard about metric miles - AFAIK, the biggest metric measure is the km; but I may be wrong... Or is this a "non-official" measure? ;-) Pedro (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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