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chrisseaton
on Aug 28, 2021
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Repairs of leaning San Francisco skyscraper on hol...
Almost impossible I'd say to confuse 1 m with 1 km or 1 mm, but easy to confuse feet with inches as they're much closer in value - the same order of magnitude even. As you can see - since it happened in this article.
Johnny555
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I don't think an engineer would confuse inches with feet, and it's a stretch to assume that a newspaper reporter wouldn't confuse m with km.
And what about mm and cm? They are only a factor of 10 apart while inches and feet are 12X apart.
krsdcbl
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Simply put: i doubt the linked article was written by the engineers responsible.
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