Calculating the Fuel Efficiency from “How To”

Rhett Allain
6 min readJan 28, 2021
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Since I love Randal Munroe’s book How To (Penguin Press), I going through each chapter and working on the equations included in the book. Of course, in a book for the general public you can’t get all into the weeds of the maths and stuff. But no one can stop me here. You can’t stop me.

For this post, I’m going to look at the equation to estimate the fuel efficiency of a driving house…

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Rhett Allain

Physics faculty, science blogger of all things geek. Technical Consultant for CBS MacGyver and MythBusters. WIRED blogger.