In article .com, "Harry K" wrote:

Goedjn wrote:
On the
other hand, calculating travel times in metric is much easier.
The standard highway speed in 100 kph, so a 500 km trip should
take 5 hours.

I like to do math with simple numbers like that.


Stupid example, though. If you're going 100 MPH, a 500 mile
trip also takes five hours. If you're only using one set of
units, it doesn't make any difference what they are.

Not at all stupid. 100kph is a quite reasonable average speed over
distance. 100 mph is not.

Absolutely it's a stupid example -- although the demonstration of its
stupidity could have been better done, e.g. "If you're going 60 mph, a 300
mile trip also takes five hours. If you're only using one set of units, it
doesn't make any difference what they are."

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