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milestogo

(23,178 posts) Tue May 12, 2026, 05:55 PM 3 hrs ago

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

SATIRE, I think.

https://theonion.com/gas-station-price-sign-using-scientific-notation/

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Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation (Original Post) milestogo 3 hrs ago OP

Getting ready for continued inflation. Permanut 3 hrs ago #1

The reason the UK went to litres for liquid measure dickthegrouch 3 hrs ago #2

Back around the sixties, the government and industry wanted to go metric Norrrm 2 hrs ago #3

Heh, I still remember the screaming headlines Disaffected 35 min ago #6

Err, no, the reason the UK went to liters Disaffected 38 min ago #5

The Onion... At first it had me checking my math in my head... LOL hlthe2b 2 hrs ago #4

Permanut

(8,548 posts)

1. Getting ready for continued inflation.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2026, 05:57 PM

3 hrs ago

dickthegrouch

(4,638 posts)

2. The reason the UK went to litres for liquid measure

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Tue May 12, 2026, 06:09 PM

3 hrs ago

Was "petrol" (gasoline) prices went too high for the pumps to accommodate the price.
One litre is roughly 1/5th of an imperial gallon, so overnight the apparent price dropped from 1.00 to 0.20. Of course you were now pumping ~5 times the number of litres as you had been gallons, but some people were fooled.
Maybe the US will be dragged kicking and screaming into metric units for the same reason.

Norrrm

(5,508 posts)

3. Back around the sixties, the government and industry wanted to go metric

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #2)

Tue May 12, 2026, 06:38 PM

2 hrs ago

Back around the sixties, the government and industry wanted to go metric. It failed.
It was heathen, communist, evil.
Why should we use foreign numbers?

Even though metric makes more sense.