Werehatrack wrote:

And as has long been the case, the true gentleman will search long and
hard to locate a computer whose figures are presented in the more
seemly furlongs, a far more appropriate distance to use in judjing
progress aboard something that is ridden astride a saddle, would you
not agree? (Sadly, such devices seem in short supply, so a conversion
table is often needed in order to make sense of the mundane
indications available.)

My Cateye reads in furlongs if I set it to a calibration number of
1069.

Alas, it still reads in decimals, not eights. More work is required.