Cars having covered 20 kilomiles. This is also common in Irish ads for car sales. Someone sells a car which has covered 30 k. This should end with metrication on the roads. I have also seen things like kilofeet, kiloyards etc. in the past. And there is the pressure unit KIPSI Kilopounds(force) per square inch.
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 2:35 AM Subject: [USMA:15721] Money and SI > Dear Luke, > > on 2001/10/17 20.40, Luke Nicolaides at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How many job adverts give the salary as £17k etc for £17,000? How many car adverts describe the car as 1999 20k, meaning it is a 1999 modle with 20,000 miles? What a lovely question. I have long thought that the use of SI prefixes > would ease our muddled use of big numbers, and help gain support for SI from > the general public. > > I would appreciate your comments on the thoughts below: <snip)
