Terry Simpson wrote in USMA 19155:
>One of the things that we haven't mentioned is that this measure and the
>imperial equivalent are inverted relative to each other. If you drive
>less efficiently metric numbers increase and imperial numbers decrease.
>This is an additional difficulty for transition.
>
>Is it better to have litres on the top or on the bottom?
>
>In any case, km/L would be a much simpler calculation.
(miles / imperial gallon) X (L / 100 km) = 282.48
(miles / US gallon) X (L / 100 km) = 235.21
Joseph B.Reid
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