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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by orf on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:43PM (#33663671)
Where does it use it for speed limits? All our cars have speedometers in mph. I’ve never seen a speed limit sign that uses kmph
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by shirleyquirk on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:59PM (#33663960)
I've seen an 8kph limit on inland waterways. But it was very unusual to see
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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by orf on Friday November 18, 2022 @06:02PM (#33664016)
Oh right, yeah. In canals it’s kmph.
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