Welcome to the list, Jason, now on to your question below. Actually there would be no need to change anything to the number quoted as x.x liters per 100 km. In reality this ratio should be understood as: x.x daL/Mm!!!
In other words, think of, say, 4.9, as actually 4.9 dekaliters per megameter! ;-) Funny that the industry didn't think of that before... :-) Marcus On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:59:08 Jason Darfus wrote: >When one talks about fuel economy (in Imp) it's written as mpg. When one >talks about fuel consumption, the inverse of economy, it's usually in SI >units and written as L/100 km. When you SAY "miles per gallon" versus >"liters per hundred kilometers", I like the Imp. way better because it's just >easier to say. >So I was thinking, why not multiply the SI fraction by 10 : instead of 4.9 L / >100 km, make it 49 L / 1000 km, also written as 49 LpM (49 Liters per >Megameter)? Technically it should be LpMm, but just for simplicity I removed >the small m. Now we have something that's a whole number and is just as easy >to say as 49 mpg. > >I'm new to this mailing list so if this has already been brought up, please >forgive me. > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
