Comment on xkcd #3065: Square Units

• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  "the Louisiana purchase added 838,000 square miles to the United States, tell me, was it 1/4 the size of the United States, or the 100x the surface area of the sun?

  One of those are square miles, the other is miles squared.

  But I don’t know why I expect you to understand this now.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you mean to type “miles squared?”

    Oh, you’re just off your meds again.

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• Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Read out loud “three squared” and 3^2

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    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tell me what “three plus four squared” is.

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    • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …

      Person behind this account, at this point you’re being deliberately dense.

      Find something better to do with your time

      Those are the exact same thing because they are the exact same thing.

      I understand English is difficult to parse, I hope you’ll get there some day.

      I guess you’re the person who this comic is written with thoughts of

      Maybe when you’re buying real estate or property some day it’ll click for you, in the mean time please ask for help before writing units in scientific papers, or interpreting those papers, and definitely don’t try to spread the results of those papers to others, lest we end up with world consuming insects.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Highly ironic that you’re telling me to find something better to do with my time.

        Get a grip, bud.

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