On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:16, David Gerard wrote:
On 03/23/04 05:59, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
It is possible to change the software in such a
way that, for example,
{{num:km2:357022}} would render as 357,022 km<sup>2</sup> for users and
visitors from Europe and as whichever mi<sup>2</sup> for users and
visitors from the US.
This is not a good idea. It will lead to silly pseudo-accuracy, of the
sort often seen in sloppy journalism: where "a thousand miles" in a US
wire report is carefully translated to "1.609 km" in an Australian
newspaper article.
[...] there could be workaround for
this, for example, {{num:~mi:1000}}
Actually, I think a much better idea would be to stick to kilometers and
other international standard metric units, and hope for the best that
the US abandon their weird units in the long run...