Oscar_Cunningham comments on Inverse Speed - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 27 March 2011 02:16:39PM *  4 points [-]

If you told people their fuel consumption in "square metres" they'd look at you like you were some sort of nerd.

:-) I am aware of this.

As it turns out, a more useful measurement would be square millimetres since this takes values of a reasonable size. Also, if you multiply by the amount of kilometres you travel you'll get the fuel consumption in litres, i.e. mm^2=L/km.