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Old 11-06-2012, 03:35 PM   #1
Ibby
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Whoa.

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But regardless of which units you use, there’s something strange going on here. Miles are units of length, and gallons are volume—which is length^3. So gallons/mile is length^3/length. That’s just length^2.

Gas mileage is measured in square meters.

You can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it’ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer screen).

Unit cancellation is weird.
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