Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

>> By the way, there's a rather simple way to mentally convert speeds to
>> furlongs/fortnight when you want to annoy people with abscure units.
>> Anyone know the trick or want to guess?
> 
> I know one furlong per fortnight is pretty close to 1cm/minute, but
> are you talking about a direct conversion from e.g. mph? 

Now come on, if you wanted it that simple, you could just use metric.
But where's the fun in that? :)

Gerhard
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