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  • polotype@lemmy.mltoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3248: 182.8 Meters
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    1 month ago

    That’s the whole point. 100 fathoms is really imprecise. But on translation, they didn’t bother keeping the significant digit count equal, and since 182.8 m= 100 f , they just left it like that. I mean, it’s the only reason he could guess there was a unit change…