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The arithmetic doesn’t work though - that was my point.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
The arithmetic doesn’t work though - that was my point.
- Johnny555 5y agoThe arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.
- chrisseaton 5y agoAlmost impossible I'd say to confuse 1 m with 1 km or 1 mm, but easy to confuse feet with inches as they're much closer in value - the same order of magnitude even. As you can see - since it happened in this article.
- Johnny555 5y agoI don't think an engineer would confuse inches with feet, and it's a stretch to assume that a newspaper reporter wouldn't confuse m with km. And what about mm and cm? They are only a factor of 10 apart while inches and feet are 12X apart.
- krsdcbl 5y agoSimply put: i doubt the linked article was written by the engineers responsible.