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Is it just for me that `kmph` stood out? Seems like such a cursed way of saying kph or km/h.
by rafaelcosta 7mo ago
Is it just for me that `kmph` stood out? Seems like such a cursed way of saying kph or km/h.
- Ekaros 7mo agoWhy does kph sound like most cursed option. kilo per hour? Kilo what? kilowatt, kilogram? kilolitres? Well it is most likely in context, but still when I stop and think about it it feels icky.. I can accept p instead of /. But just entirely ignoring unit feels wrong... Also is speed of something slow ph?
- kqr 7mo agoBoth kph and mph sort of follow a pattern of the first letter of each word in the unit being spelled out, but kmph reads ambiguously as k(mph) or (km)ph. Of course, anyone caring about correctness would use the SI unit symbol, which is m/s.
- kelipso 7mo agokm is very standard abbreviation for kilometers. Like anyone outside the US would recognize that and consequently kmph. Of course, km/h is very recognizable and k/h looks like nonsense. So I'd say kph is the objectively terrible option.
- jiehong 7mo agoyes, I think it's just the US/UK doing that, else people write km/h.