Donjuanme @ Donjuanme @lemmy.world

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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.

Edit i see where you've made the mistake,

If it's (3+4)^2 then you've failed to combine like units, something they teach you about in kindergarten.

"the Louisiana purchase added 838,000 square miles to the United States, tell me, was it 1/4 the size of the United States, or the 100x the surface area of the sun?

One of those are square miles, the other is miles squared.

But I don't know why I expect you to understand this now.

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I think square feet is popular because many things dealt with aren't squares, but a square foot is generally small enough to be a good measure, while also large enough to not be an unreasonably large number. When square feet are too small we move to yards (meters), acres, hectares or miles.

A house or apartment isn't usually square, so how would you apply feet (or meters) squared to it? While a property line might well be equally long on each edge, so you might see it in feet squared, but also that number looks A LOT smaller, so you'll often see square feet or meters

Another notch to my conspiracy that Russia really wants to take down Boeing.

My money says this program is going to be poorly managed and not see any planes completed

That has to be against employment regulations.... Coercion or threat to employment if you don't invest your money in certain ways?

Did 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.

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Person behind this account, at this point you're being deliberately dense.

Find something better to do with your time

Those are the exact same thing because they are the exact same thing.

I understand English is difficult to parse, I hope you'll get there some day.

I guess you're the person who this comic is written with thoughts of

Maybe when you're buying real estate or property some day it'll click for you, in the mean time please ask for help before writing units in scientific papers, or interpreting those papers, and definitely don't try to spread the results of those papers to others, lest we end up with world consuming insects.

No need to add the comma if you say it properly, feet squared are not squared feet, quantifier (3) adjective (square) noun (feet) vs quantifier (3) noun (square) affective (feet), it's the order of operations in the English language, one is quantifying the distance of the edge, while the other is quantifying how many individual edges (squares) of set distance (feet) you have.

I am not writing it with any discrepancy, though I do get tripped up when talking about it, but generally nobody calls anyone on it, except that's when expensive projects go boom sometimes.

Read out loud 3sqft and 3'^2,

First one: 3 square feet

Second one: 3 feet (foot? If you're pedantic) squared (square if you're a pedant)

3 square feet are 3 1x1 feet, 1/3rd of a square yard. 3 feet squared is a square yard, 3x larger than 3 sqft.

Unless I'm missing your sarcasm.

Also the purpose of this xkcd

Edit to add, a 600 square foot studio apartment (about 3% of an acre) is much smaller than the 600 foot squared lot that a mcmansion will sit on. (About 9 acres)

Italian vinaigrette + sous vide

Don't pour/rinse this down the drain.

Always bothers me that I can't trust 90% of people (myself included) to properly state area, square feet or feet squared, very different scales.

Neither did their original return craft....

Wtf how is that even in my auto correct, thanks!!

Just thinking, side to side motion is much less predictable to forward and backwards motion. Everyone (everything?) knows going forward is much easier and safer than going backwards, going side to side both ways are equally easy/safe.

Treads only allow you forward and backward motion (even with your head turned), definitely needs more side to side action to reach it's ultimate form

Too* oblivious to be intimated.

If you got them backwards I would've chuckled.

Really? Seems like we had a peaceful transition of power just this year.

Nice frowny face, are they using lube in your fantasy?

Looks so much like a colored over Allie Broche drawing!