Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 04:36:55 +0000 From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> Subject: Re: 9-5 gas mileage?
Gary Fritz wrote: > > Yeah, because we can't whip out a calculator and do division, is > > that it? > > Nah, us Yanks are too clever for that. Just pop into Google, enter > 11 liters per 100 km in mpg > and Google will obligingly inform you it's 21.383144 miles per gallon. > > And it was a bunch of dense Yanks that came up with that nifty tool, > Graham. Hi Gary. I'm going to be controversial once more - 'cos I can be - lol ;-) There would be no Google if it wasn't for a Brit called Tim Berners-Lee who 'invented' the world wide web. As I understand it he came up with the idea of html and domains and stuff. Before that the internet was just a boring network protocol ( oh it still is too when you want it to be ) . Touche ! Graham