On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:16, David Gerard wrote:
On 03/23/04 05:59, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
It is possible to change the software in such a way that, for example, {{num:km2:357022}} would render as 357,022 km<sup>2</sup> for users and visitors from Europe and as whichever mi<sup>2</sup> for users and visitors from the US.
This is not a good idea. It will lead to silly pseudo-accuracy, of the sort often seen in sloppy journalism: where "a thousand miles" in a US wire report is carefully translated to "1.609 km" in an Australian newspaper article.
Well, I doubt that this could be a problem. If the exact number is unimportant, the {{num:}} would simply not be used. If someone uses it wrongly, someone else would revert. Finally, there could be workaround for this, for example, {{num:~mi:1000}} might get out as "1600 km" (converted, then rounded to a precision of, say, original number/10).