Geographic inaccuracies found in DD&Co

[Kriton Kyrimis]

SANTIAGO:

>> that "Langvekkistan" is located in sentral-Asia (that's where countries
>> with names ending with "-stan" normally are located) the distance would be
>> 9995 km rather than 99950 km.
>
> Ahem... Could it be a quiiiiiiite curve-full way? ;-)

Not if the tunnel follows the curvature of the Earth, and if there was a
decimal point after that 5, that the weather had erased, making 9995.0
look like 99950! As for why the sign would say 9995.0 instead of 9995,
well, engineers like to indicate the accuracy of their numbers by not
omitting superfluous zeros. Thus, according to the engineer who put
up that sign (for who else, but an engineer, would measure distance in
kilometers in the US?) the distance was 9995 kilometers with an accuracy
of one decimeter!

There! It almost makes sense now! :-)

	Kriton	(e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
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