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.
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.
No need to add the comma if you say it properly, feet squared are not squared feet, quantifier (3) adjective (square) noun (feet) vs quantifier (3) noun (square) affective (feet), it’s the order of operations in the English language, one is quantifying the distance of the edge, while the other is quantifying how many individual edges (squares) of set distance (feet) you have.
I am not writing it with any discrepancy, though I do get tripped up when talking about it, but generally nobody calls anyone on it, except that’s when expensive projects go boom sometimes.
Read out loud 3sqft and 3’^2,
First one: 3 square feet
Second one: 3 feet (foot? If you’re pedantic) squared (square if you’re a pedant)
Read out loud “three squared” and 3^2
Did you not notice the unit modifier in the my second phrase???
Let me spell it out for you.
3 (three) ’ (feet) ^2 (squared)
You’d have me repeating myself like a monkey, which is, NINE.
3 (three) sq (square) ft (feet) is THREE.
but I suspect you’ll disagree at at this point I’ll move on, my only sadness is there was a person out there who agreed with your original argument that they were the same.
Tell me what “three plus four squared” is.
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Nope, forty-nine.
See?
Okay,
There’s this thing called the order of operations
And seeing as how you don’t know about it, it makes sense that you won’t know the difference between square miles and miles squared.
Please check out a junior high school math text book before bothering to argue on the Internet.
Edit i see where you’ve made the mistake,
If it’s (3+4)^2 then you’ve failed to combine like units, something they teach you about in kindergarten.
No, I was clearly thinking of parentheses when I wrote it, so you should have said them when you said it.
Take your meds, Donnie.
Please read my comment again about combining like units you…
Nope that’s all you get out of me until you remember apples and oranges