Comment on xkcd #3065: Square Units
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoDid 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell me what “three plus four squared” is.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
19
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope, forty-nine.
See?
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.