Comments on Puzzle #3662: on the road # 10: help for the visitor
By Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty)
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#1: Jane Doe (telly) on Sep 30, 2008
I forget, which is longer a kilometer or a mile. I think it's a mile, but...#2: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Oct 1, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#3: Martha Valdés (maval) on Apr 14, 2011
A mile is longer than a kilometer: 1 Km = 0.62 mile thus 1 mile = 1.61 Km#4: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Apr 15, 2011 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Martha Valdés (maval) on May 3, 2011
Sylvain, the identity you used ratifies that 1 mile is longer than 1 kilometer.#6: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on May 3, 2011 [SPOILER]
In these terms, 60 Km/h = 60000 m/h doesn't implies that 1 meter is longer than 1 kilometer, but on the contrary.
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#7: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Dec 29, 2020
Nice, but it could have easily been made in a smaller nice.#8: William Wolfe (billwolfe) on Jan 14, 2025
I looked at in and thought "Who knows what you'll find one K down this path." That's one way to encourage tourism ;-) .#9: Lollipop (lollipop) on Jan 14, 2025
Canada's conversion to metric began on April 1 1975 when all weather forecasts in the country announced temperature in degrees celsius. We knew it was coming, but it was shocking nonetheless. It continued through the early '80s, first with speed limits and distance in km and shorter lengths in meters and cm, followed by volume in liters, and weights in kg and grams. My kids learned only metric in school, but I'd lived with with imperial measure long before then and it was a hard wrench for me and many others. These days I have an intuitive sense of distance and speed in km because it's been in front of me on road signs and my speedometer every day for almost 50 years, but for shorter measurements I still think in yards and feet and inches. To this day I always quickly mentally convert celsius to fahrenheit so I can understand what the "real" forecast or temperature will feel like. I'm very comfortable with liters for liquids but I assess dry weight in pounds and ounces.#10: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jan 17, 2025
It reminds me of when I learned French as a second language while in school and working in Montreal. We've lived and worked in English in Ottawa for 45 years now, but I'm still conversationally bilingual when I need to be. Similarly I'm conversationally comfortable with metric as a second language, but imperial measure is my mother tongue.
The US *tried* to convert, for the 1984 Olympics, perhaps, but it didn't stick.
Of course, they may have just put up KM markers for the benefit of foreign visitors.
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