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7 Sep 2024 15:26:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Metric redux  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 15 Oct 2008 15:56:07
Message: <48f64ad7$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:30:34 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On 15 Oct 2008 13:47:45 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> 
> 
>>That's right - but I want to say the kph was on the outside whereas on
>>US cars it's on the inside.
>>
>>
> I am contradicting you tonight :P. 

You are.  Stop it. ;-)

> On my car the kph is on the inside
> and it is in red so that it does not distract (I think) this was not
> helpful to me when I drove it for 9 months on the continent a few years
> ago and could not make out the speed at night.

Ouch.

>>More fun in your head is to convert the cost there to US dollars per US
>>gallon....
> 
> If only the exchange rate would stay the same at the end of a journey as
> it was at the beginning :)

Well, yeah, that would be useful.  It was more stable when we were last 
there.

Still not favourable to us, though.

Jim


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