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Re:Just Say No by midgetjones on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:31AM (#14219638)
I think the car manufacturers made it a lot more difficult, just by adding an extra 0. This is predating digital displays, of course.
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Re:Just Say No by ghaff on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:55AM (#14219840)
It's also interesting to reflect that getting a car to 100,000 miles used to be considered a sufficient outlier that it wasn't worth spending a few more cents to design odometers that handled that case.
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