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0 pointsJohnny5554y ago0 comments

The arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.

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chrisseaton4y ago· 2 in thread

Almost 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.

Johnny555OP4y ago

I 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.

krsdcbl4y ago

Simply put: i doubt the linked article was written by the engineers responsible.

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