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The arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.
by Johnny555 5y ago
The 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.