Comment on Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on holdparentComments−chrisseaton5yThe arithmetic doesn’t work though - that was my point.−Johnny5555yThe arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.−chrisseaton5yAlmost 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.−Johnny5555yI 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.−krsdcbl5ySimply put: i doubt the linked article was written by the engineers responsible.
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The arithmetic doesn’t work though - that was my point.
The arithmetic works, but the units were wrong, that can happen in the metric system too.
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.
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.
Simply put: i doubt the linked article was written by the engineers responsible.