Theist comments on Inverse Speed - Less Wrong

14 Post author: komponisto 27 March 2011 05:57AM

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Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 27 March 2011 09:44:22AM 20 points [-]

For some reason no one does the obvious cancellation to end up in m^2. This even has an intuitive meaning, it's the cross-section that a line of fuel would need so that as you travelled along it you'd be "picking it up" at the same rate you were burning it.

Comment author: Theist 21 April 2011 10:00:54PM 1 point [-]

Thank you for that humorous insight. I am entertained by the knowledge that my car has a fuel efficiency of 0.0784 mm^2.