Petrol less than £1 a gallon!!!!!!

A sad mentalist who can't spell.

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regards half_pint



".

 

You know nothing.

 

I dont thinks thats a metric metre more like a parking meter.

 

With petrol being so expensive 'rounding' is not very helpful.
A penny a litre on a full tank is 50p which is a very useful
thing to remember, as it gives you a feel for what you are buying,
something I could never get with litres before. Now I can compare
prices at the pumps because 78.6 and 79.4 mean nothing to me.

 

Actually,its illegal to sell draught beer in litres. You're allowed
to (but not obliged to) sell milk and orange juice in pints too if
they're delivered to the door, but draught beer *has* to be sold in
imperial measures.

Brian

 

I think you may be taking things a little too seriously

cheers,
clive

 

I do know you are boring.

You are rapidly causing me to lose the will to live in usenet form,
christ knows what effect you'd have IRL.

 

Not any imperial measure. IIRC draught beer has to be sold in
quantities of 1/3 pint or multiples of 1/2 pint.

 

Only SI prefixes are base related. The major benefits of SI (e.g. only
one unit for each quantity) are independent of base. If you want to
use a different base, then avoid the prefixes or use a different set.
See:
http://www.iec.ch/online_news/etech/arch_2003/etech_0503/focus.htm

A base 12 system uses powers of 12 only (12, 144, 1728 etc). The old
system has no base, just a series of unrelated conversion factors e.g.
12, 3, 22, 10, 8.

 

....

That is the result of falling standards in education. I never had problems
working out what ten bob would buy me at 1/8d a gallon.

Colin Bignell

 

In the USofA, engine sizes are often quoted in cubic inches. Not pints!

 

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regards half_pint

Wanna step outside and say that?

 

Well if you can do 78.4 * 49 in your head you probably went to
a better school than I did..
I left University with a degree in Electronics before standards started
falling.

 

I and I know you are interesting.
Go one telll me about your rusty old bikes...again...

 

Took me a few minutes to think about it in real money, but I got there in
the end. No, I won't spoil the fun and tell everyone.

 

So you know nothing about psychological pricing.

 

Are all motorcyclists complete morons? Or are you just the vocal few?

 

than you need, your only problem is spending it, However some people do

How can it be easier to budget in gallons when petrol is sold in litres?

 

Nope.

Colin Bignell