naive newbie

[dpoorsBenz]

having studied this forum, and found no explination, can someone enlighten me as to wether the odometer measures miles or km's, cos i just a 190e with 160k on the clock, just wondering :?

 

[190D]

Depends if its an MPH Speedo or a KMH Speedo

 

[dpoorsBenz]

Apologies

i've just had a good look at the clock and it says "miles" white letters :Oops: , woods for the trees me thinks

 

[stwat]

:???: :???: :neutral: ?????

 

[television]

Depends if its an MPH Speedo or a KMH Speedo

You cant have KMH its KM because those with KM do not speak english

 

[eyelight]

You cant have KMH its KM because those with KM do not speak english

They do if they're in Ireland, which has switched to kilometres since 1st of January 2005.

 

[marnix]

Hour is Heure in French.
Soo it's starts with an H as well

 

[190D]

You cant have KMH its KM because those with KM do not speak english

This picture of this speedo was taken from a russian car and it lists Km/h

 

[SLinKyjoe]

having studied this forum, and found no explination, can someone enlighten me as to wether the odometer measures miles or km's, cos i just a 190e with 160k on the clock, just wondering :?

160K means 160,000 not 160Km. K is how the UK shorten 1000 or one thousand and it means Kilo.

but if the sppedo reads in Miles then so does the oddometer. if you only have Km/h on the speedo then your mileage would be in Km.

or should it be Kileage?

 

[mlc]

How can I argue with my favourite Uncle, but sometimes he is not always completely correct.

K doesnt mean 1000, it is a computing term meaning 1024. This means if a file is said to take 4k of disk space it actual takes 4096 units of disk space. Over the last 20 years K has slowly been taking into every day use as meaning (incorrectly) 1000, the starting point was IT jobs that were advertised with a salary of "up to £30K", sadly I have never convinced a new employer that this means upto £30720!

Mark

 

[jberks]

K doesnt mean 1000, it is a computing term meaning 1024.
Mark

Not entirely true. K means Kilo in latin or 1000 and kg, km etc were around long before Alan Turing or even Charles Babbage.
It means 1024 is IT as 1024 is the closest you can get to 1000 in binary positional terms.
e.g.
1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024
hence it has come to mean 1024 in a computer. Outside IT though, everyone works in decimal so we can have 1000 instead!
oh - I'm getting nurdy again ...

 

[SLinKyjoe]

How can I argue with my favourite Uncle, but sometimes he is not always completely correct.

K doesnt mean 1000, it is a computing term meaning 1024. This means if a file is said to take 4k of disk space it actual takes 4096 units of disk space. Over the last 20 years K has slowly been taking into every day use as meaning (incorrectly) 1000, the starting point was IT jobs that were advertised with a salary of "up to £30K", sadly I have never convinced a new employer that this means upto £30720!

Mark

oh my......here we go again. i do think the term Kilo and Kilometer was invented by the romans and stole by the french when they suggested the metric system, around the 1700's i think it was. a metre being something roughly equal to one 10,000'th of the earths diameter from the pole to the equater. i think. give or take a foot. so a Kilometer is 1000 of these metres added together and laid end to end. then again a Kilogramme is only 1000Grammes stuffed into as tight as space as possible. Mind you, a 1000 litres of water is nearly a bathfull. :razz:

but as you rightly point out, i had forgot that Nero was of course the inventer of the PC. as was Cowan Gates. Bill's Dad. they, of course stole the term for Kilo and added it to byte. which made Kilobyte which as you point out, was shortened to K. Kilobyte, if i think correctly, Old McDonald and his farm of battery hens used for making Wimpyburgers!!!! :Oops:

£30720! how does anybody live on that? i would have to take up window cleaning to make ends meet. :mrgreen:

 

[SLinKyjoe]

Not entirely true. K means Kilo in latin or 1000

damn. that how i should have phrased it.

 

[davidsl500]

Not entirely true. K means Kilo in latin or 1000 QUOTE]

damn. that how i should have phrased it.

I think you will find that Kilo came from the Greeks - its all greek to me anyway....

 

[SLinKyjoe]

I think you will find that Kilo came from the Greeks - its all greek to me anyway....

is latin not greek then? i could never work that out. being semi bilingual i have enough trouble with angleterre.

 

[paulcallender]

GETTING BACK TO THE QUESTION............

99% of the time the indication of MPH or KPH would also relate to the odometer's units. There is a slim chance, that say it was an Irish car, the original unit was 'refaced' with KPH speed readings, but retains the odometer in miles. The only way to be sure, would be to check the part number of the dash unit. If you let me know this (and the chassis number of the car), I'll tell you 99.9% sure.

 

[jberks]

is latin not greek then? i could never work that out. being semi bilingual i have enough trouble with angleterre.

greek, geek - its all the same really!

 

[mlc]

Getting away from the question again

Gentlemen,

I offer no defence to the idea the km means a 1000 metres and kg means 1000 grams. In fact I even agree that this is using some strange old language that was then pinched by the french and ended up as the SI units of measurement.

However that same system expects the value to be given, then the multipler then the unit of measure so 27.1 Kg means 27.1 x 1000 (grams). If we say me car has got 27k on the clock it doesnt really mean anything, just like saying the cost of a house is £400k doesnt mean anything ALTHOUGH the source of the k on both these occasions is the IT value of around 1000 or actually 2 to the power 10 (1024).

Sorry to be picky - but im in a bad mood, someone has nicked the front plate off the SLK whilst we were out tonight.

Mark.

 

[davidsl500]

Gentlemen,

I offer no defence to the idea the km means a 1000 metres and kg means 1000 grams. In fact I even agree that this is using some strange old language that was then pinched by the french and ended up as the SI units of measurement.

However that same system expects the value to be given, then the multipler then the unit of measure so 27.1 Kg means 27.1 x 1000 (grams). If we say me car has got 27k on the clock it doesnt really mean anything, just like saying the cost of a house is £400k doesnt mean anything ALTHOUGH the source of the k on both these occasions is the IT value of around 1000 or actually 2 to the power 10 (1024).

Sorry to be picky - but im in a bad mood, someone has nicked the front plate off the SLK whilst we were out tonight.

Mark.

Sorry to be even pickier, but you could argue that 27K in IT Speak is meaningless as well. In IT Terms file sizes would be quoted as 27KB - the B giving the unit of measure in your definition as opposed to 27KBPS for example if referring to speed of transfer. You could also argue that in the case of values £400K is actually 400K£ and in the case of distance the 27K in the UK would be presumed to be miles - as in whats the mileage on the car - 27K Mate...

Anyway Mark, have you tried looking under you SLK ? - thats probably what the victim was hanging on to when you ran him over...

 

[mlc]

just checked under the car, sadly no number plate thief found. Since he kindly left a stanley knife blade on the boot lid its more likely he went over the top rather than underneath.

MrsC is currently waiting for daylight as she is sure that the car will be covered in scratches from the blade, I suspect more likely that the target was the tyres and he was distrurbed, you get a better class of yob in Stockport

Any way back to bed fo another 0.04k winks