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.

https://explainxkcd.com/3065/

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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.