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Example map (of that of which sabotage might be intended) could be something like: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/0f/36/410f3661d1cee3b255b82a111f99d242.jpg ..? I have no doubt that someone is even now polishing off an initial Explanation, and wouldn't want to exit-conflict with them, but that's something like what I'd link to in order to demonstrate the thing being messed with. (Noting that the reference to North American territory both in words and the obvious Candian mapleleaf(less) flag as a basis. (Not sure, by sight, where the 'bite' matches, if not as per the red 'key', but note how Spain gets twisted in my link in order to not look odd with coastlines and similarly twisted Portugese neighbour cutting at odd angles through its stripes. That's the kind of thing this flag would evoke the confusion of.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.35|141.101.76.35]] 02:26, 14 October 2021 (UTC)</div>141.101.76.35https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2528:_Flag_Map_Sabotage&diff=219225Talk:2528: Flag Map Sabotage2021-10-14T02:26:11Z<p>141.101.76.35: </p>
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Example map (of that of which sabotage might be intended: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/0f/36/410f3661d1cee3b255b82a111f99d242.jpg ..? I have no doubt that someone is even now polishing off an initial Explanation, and wouldn't want to exit-conflict with them, but that's something like what I'd link to in order to demonstrate the thing being messed with. (Noting that the reference to North American territory both in words and the obvious Candian mapleleaf(less) flag as a basis. (Not sure, by sight, where the 'bite' matches, if not as per the red 'key', but note how Spain gets twisted in my link in order to not look odd with coastlines and similarly twisted Portugese neighbour cutting at odd angles through its stripes. That's the kind of thing this flag would evoke the confusion of.) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.35|141.101.76.35]] 02:26, 14 October 2021 (UTC)</div>141.101.76.35https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2526:_TSP_vs_TBSP&diff=2190492526: TSP vs TBSP2021-10-08T22:15:36Z<p>141.101.76.35: (roll eyes) explainxkcd can do without this type of jokes.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2526<br />
| date = October 8, 2021<br />
| title = Tsp vs Tbsp<br />
| image = tsp_vs_tbsp.png<br />
| titletext = It's like one teraspoon / when all you need is a kilonife<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by ALANIS TURINGETTE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
This comic plays a joke on the common liquid measurements of {{w|teaspoon}}s (tsp) and {{w|tablespoon}}s (tbsp), which are commonly confused. In the US, a teaspoon is defined as 4.9 mL (0.18 imp fl oz; 0.17 US fl oz) while a tablespoon is defined as 14.8 ml (0.50 US fl oz; 3 tsp).<br />
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It also plays a joke on metric measurements (which use powers of 10) versus computer measurements (which use powers of 2), which also cause confusion. See also [[394: Kilobyte]].<br />
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The title text is a play on a lyric from the Alanis Morissette song "{{w|Ironic (song)|Ironic}}": "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife." Randall changes the line to "teraspoon" and "kilonife". The knife being translated as k nife with k meaning kilo, hence kilonife instead of kiloknife!<br />
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If "spoon" is understood as teaspoon, then one teraspoon will be 5000 cubic meters and a binary teraspoon will be 5497,6 cubic meters. If the tablespoon is taken as base unit, a teraspoon will be 14800 cubic meters and a binary teraspoon 16272.8 cubic meters.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:Cooking tips: tsp vs tbsp<br />
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:[left column:]<br />
:<big>Tsp</big><br />
:Teraspoon <br />
:1,000,000,000,000 <br />
:(10<sup>12</sup>) spoons<br />
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:[right column:]<br />
:<big>Tbsp</big><br />
:Binary tsp <br />
:1,099,511,627,776 <br />
:(1024<sup>4</sup>) spoons<br />
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