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minus-squarepHr34kY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84arrow-down2·edit-211 hours ago over 1,120 miles (1,802 kilometers). This is the most American thing ever. Taking an official number (1,808km), converting it to customary units (1,123mi) rounding it (1,120mi) then converting it back again with rounding error.
minus-squareKlear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down1·edit-210 hours agoRelevant xkcd
minus-squareksigley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoThere really is Xkcd for everything.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·10 hours agois there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now …
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-28 hours ago#2087
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agohttps://www.xkcd.com/2087/ Disappointed it wasn’t tbh
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours ago404 could legitimately be argued to be tangentially related, but I can’t find any reference to Randall acknowledging that it’s a thing.
minus-squareCodpiece@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·10 hours agoNo, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 hours ago“Stone” is British, we don’t use that bullshit here.
minus-squarepHr34kY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·10 hours agoIt’s right there in the article. over roughly the distance between New York and Florida
This is the most American thing ever. Taking an official number (1,808km), converting it to customary units (1,123mi) rounding it (1,120mi) then converting it back again with rounding error.
Relevant xkcd
There really is Xkcd for everything.
is there an xkcd for there always being an xkcd for everything? i wonder now …
#2087
https://www.xkcd.com/2087/
Disappointed it wasn’t tbh
404 could legitimately be argued to be tangentially related, but I can’t find any reference to Randall acknowledging that it’s a thing.
Here
No, real Americans would measure it in rocks, or football fields or something.
“Stone” is British, we don’t use that bullshit here.
It’s right there in the article.