XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: peter@pmoylan.org   
      
   On 20/09/24 19:46, occam wrote:   
   > On 20/09/2024 10:54, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:   
   >> occam wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> You do use Google search?  Try typing '1 mile = ? kilometers' in   
   >>> the google search bar.  Answer = 1.60934.   
   >>   
   >> You don't even need the "? kilometers".   
   >   
   > Yes you do, unless you want to choose one of: 1760 yards/1.60934   
   > kms/320 rods/1.70108e-13 light-years  etc.  There is more to a mile   
   > than kilometers.   
      
   Yes, but Google doesn't give you those unless you ask for them. It   
   assumes that you want kilometres.   
      
   But maybe it's country-dependent, because it didn't even give me the   
   American spelling. Perhaps in the UK the default is set to rods, poles,   
   or perches.   
      
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