{"id":12354,"date":"2012-09-12T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2012-09-12T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T08:00:55","slug":"unit-cancellation-is-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12354","title":{"rendered":"Unit Cancellation is Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/11\/\">XKCD&#8217;s What If:  Bird Droppings<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gas mileage is measured in square meters.<br \/>\nYou can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it\u2019ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer screen).<br \/>\nUnit cancellation is weird.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XKCD&#8217;s What If: Bird Droppings Gas mileage is measured in square meters. You can even plug it into Wolfram|Alpha, and it\u2019ll tell you that 20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters (roughly the area of two pixels on a computer &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,39,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-physics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}