Converting Price Per Litre To Price Per Pint

[jadyn]

I don't know if it's me but I'm having problems converting between the above. I've only seen one online converter and it doesn't explain how it calculates it. Surely there must be a simple formula out there I can use. The units are pounds sterling and UK pints. It's a few years since I was in school!

Thank you.

[KARL]

bhg, outside the UK fuel consumption is generally expressed in litres per 100km - that is how I always compare because it feels to me more descriptive than in outdated units (and you can converse with the rest of the human race - never mind the US with their variants of the outdated). When you go below 5litres/100km you are running economically, touch 4litres/100km and you are doing very well.

[bhg481]

KARL - I am aware that and hesitated before I asked for miles/l (because that's how we think in the UK). I think even fewer people would know their fuel consumption using the continental system.

[KARL]

I know what you mean, bhg, along with stones (all sizes), etc. - (almost) everyone in the UK knows what is being talked about but nobody else, and vice versa when it comes to the metric system - it's all very Brexity ;).

[sunny-dave]

I think (for once) the Brits have actually got it right - the difference between 40pmg and 50mpg sounds (and is) quite a lot. It's useful to be easily able to quote intervening figures without fractions/decimals and also logical that a higher number is a better result.

Whereas the difference between 4l per 100km and 5l per 100km sounds trivial (but is huge) and faffing with 4.2 and 5.3 etc just isn't going to happen.

[KARL]

In the UK, UK practice is (unsurprisingly) the world's best - simply a matter of familiarity however idiosyncratic......again, only in the UK and NOBODY has taken it up (again, forgetting the Americans). The others are all wrong (in the UK, that is......). After all, the advantage of the difference when comparing 42 to 52 over comparing 4.2 and 5.2 is obvious, innit ?

[bhg481]

KARL - not only that but with the UK system the higher the number the better the fuel consumption, with the continental system the lower the number the better the fuel consumption. Surely the UK system is more logical ie, the higher the better.

[KARL]

So a prime example of the illogical: Lower consumption, lower number.......