On 7/30/13 2:48 PM, Bill Baxter wrote:

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org <mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org>>
wrote:

    On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Walter Bright wrote:

        On 7/30/2013 2:59 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

            I just want to point out that being so much people getting
            this wrong
            (and even fighting to convince other people that the wrong
            interpretation is right) might be an indication that the
            message you
            wanted to give in that blog is not extremely clear :)


        It never occurred to me that anyone would have any difficulty
        understanding the notion of "speed". After all, we deal with it
        every
        day when driving.


Yeh sure.  Like "I made the trip to grandmother's house in 0.25
trips/hour!.  That's 25% faster than last week when I only drove at 0.2
trips/hour."
I say that all the time.  ;-)

--bb

One does say miles per hour or kilometers per hour, which is the same exact notion.