do you guys help newbies??

[Greg Ewing]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> Other than the strange aspect that metric users tend to reverse the 
> nature of the units... Rather than distance/volume I often saw 
> volume/distance (litres/km for instance)


Well, for a quantity that's called "fuel consumption",
it could be argued that volume/distance makes more sense.
A higher value for fuel consumption should mean you use more
fuel, not less!

Also it's more convenient for calculating things
like how much fuel you'll need to travel a certain
distance.

Note that it's usually it's quoted as litres per 100km
rather than litres per km, to get numbers of a reasonable
magnitude.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg