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Whilst standardisation is obviously important, the article references an anecdote where a building had to lose a storey due to the usage of the ‘wrong type of f
by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst standardisation is obviously important, the article references an anecdote where a building had to lose a storey due to the usage of the ‘wrong type of foot’.
This does not seem overly plausible given the error would be <2mm over the height of the Burj Khalifa.
- wcoenen 6y agoIt was likely the measurement of the distance between the airport and the building that was the problem. edit: thinking about it, it still doesn't make sense. The difference in distance would be about 2 cm over 10 km.
- turbonaut 6y agoIndeed, even if you were Elon Musk, building a space elevator to ISS and you used the wrong type of foot, you’d only be 80cm out.
- chrisseaton 6y agoThink about the error in the distance of the building to the airport, not the error in the height. You can imagine how that error in the distance could be a few feet, which would take the build height into a category of maximum height that was many feet lower. The error in the height is irrelevant in this case.
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