3065: "Square Units"

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3065: "Square Units"

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Title text: The biggest I've seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.

And he hasn't even gotten into the potential confusion of things like "twice as big".
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To make matters worse, it reproduces bimonthly
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somitomi wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 8:54 pm To make matters worse, it reproduces bimonthly
Thanks for my daily chuckle.
Is biweekly approximately the same duration as bimonthly?
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