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		speerer on Jan 23, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turn any bicycle electric This made me smile, but I looked it up anyway and it turns out it's a non-SI abbreviation for kilometres per hour. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/kmph Not common in my country, the UK, but maybe in India? I know the Indian language numbering system has different number groupings, so why not.

joseda-hg on Jan 23, 2025 [–]

I mean, miles are so rare for non English speakers, that it didn't register to me as weird

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