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Unit Cancellation is Weird

Posted on September 12, 2012 by swansont

XKCD’s What If: Bird Droppings

Gas mileage is measured in square meters.
You can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it’ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer screen).
Unit cancellation is weird.

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