What is a kil'ometer?

[Ian.MacAllan]

Here in the States we have no time for sensible measurement systems! None of this Mamby Pamby divide by ten and get a quick and simple answer stuff. . . .

Actual entry to a "My Pop's Tops" contest, by a fifth grader: "My Pop's Tops not only on Fathers Day but on all the other 5,280 days of the year!"

. . . No doing dangerous math going down the highway!

Pvt: How do you convert klicks to miles?
Sgt: Multiply klicks by 5 and divide by 8, then subtract 2.
Pvt: Why subtract 2?
Sgt: Because by the time I have multiplied by 5 and divided by 8 we've gone two miles. (At motor convoy speed: 20 mph.)

. . . Does that help?

Not at all, but thanks for trying.

. . . Metric is SO much easier than imperial. But the US has been doing things that way for a long time, and we're a stubborn lot! . . .
T.

A large part of the silliness of this situation is that the USA is officially on the metric syatem. All other units are, by statute, defined in terms of metric units. But, to 99.44% of Americans, that is incredible news.

And a kilobyte is ...

1000 bytes to a hardware engineer and 1024 bytes to a software engineer. What could be simpler?

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