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Originally Posted by Sven7
I'm not the biggest supporter of our system either, but until we start teaching kids how to use measurements, metric and arithmetic, there's no use in preaching to the choir.
Also, you can figure out almost anything with MPG. If i'm going on a 100 mile trip and I get 42 MPG, I do 100/42 and that's how many gallons I'll need. With a 5mpg improvement, (100/42)-(100/47). Easy.
(I'm an art student and that's the most math I've done in over a year. It was still easy)
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This reminds me how different our world is in Europe compared to what you have in United States.
For me fractions like those are like foreign language that I don't know of, however percentages and decimals are easy, but I believe that Americans have again harder time with percentages and decimals?
Does not make either way crap or useless, just different and interesting.
I'm not much fan of everything being same, I rather have bit of difficulties to learn different ways of doing things, often that gives me different perspective which leads to new ideas, but if everything is same and only one way is preferred, that is something I kind of try to steer away from.
But even for me l/Km is not telling much of anything, I know both units, I can tell that it is how far I can get with one unit of fuel, but still I'm not used to that unit so I have to work out a bit to get if 10 is big or small number, but there is hardly any way of measuring fuel consumption that I could not get if I put bit effort to it. I use l/100km mostly, I just convert from there and to there.