beep@piefed.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago182.8 Meters— They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.i.ibb.coimagemessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up175file-text
arrow-up175image182.8 Meters— They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.i.ibb.cobeep@piefed.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/webcomics/p/1139807/182-8-meters-they-rounded-down-to-182-8-instead-of-rounding-up-to-182-9-because-182-9-mi XKCD #3248. Explain XKCD.
minus-squareover_clox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-221 hours agoA Fathom is supposedly 6 feet… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom So 100 Fathoms must be 600 feet, which is 1,028.571 bananas… https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/600-feet-to-bananas Edit: Other sources say a Fathom is 6 meters, so I dunno if the bananas are bananaing right 🤷 If that’s the case, then 100 Fathoms is 600 meters, which is 3,374.578 bananas… https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/600-meters-to-bananas Now I want a banana…
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-220 hours agoAs I was taught when learning how to be sailor, it was six feet. Also Wikipedia .
A Fathom is supposedly 6 feet…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom
So 100 Fathoms must be 600 feet, which is 1,028.571 bananas…
https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/600-feet-to-bananas
Edit: Other sources say a Fathom is 6 meters, so I dunno if the bananas are bananaing right 🤷
If that’s the case, then 100 Fathoms is 600 meters, which is 3,374.578 bananas…
https://bananaforscale.info/convert/length/600-meters-to-bananas
Now I want a banana…
As I was taught when learning how to be sailor, it was six feet. Also Wikipedia .