[bena]

Yeah, they just did the conversion and slapped it on there. Should have said "about 2200 mph".

[JoshTriplett]

It's unfortunate that the only written mechanism we have for expressing a lack of precision is scientific notation, which tends to be obfuscating for numbers at this scale: if you write "3.6e3 kph (2.2e3 mph)", you make it clear approximately how much precision you do and don't have, but it's less obvious-at-a-glance for the target audience of an article like this.

[carlmr]

Or use kps and not lose additional precision every time you translate units?

[bena]

In an ideal world.

[floxy]

m/s

[carlmr]

Or that, anything SI

[kingds]

2200 would improperly add an extra significant figure, "about 2000" would be okay.

[bena]

I had figured since km/h was NN00, the same would be good for mph.

[olddustytrail]

Naw, it's already been false precisioned to hell.

The original would have been "about 1000 metres/second". That got translated to 3600 km/h etc.

Check how much it charges if it was really 800 m/s. Or 1200 m/s.