3065: Square Units - Revision history

FaviFake: removed Category:Comics featuring Blondie; added Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart using HotCat

2026-05-09T15:40:11Z

removed Category:Comics featuring Blondie; added Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart using HotCat

FaviFake: given the proposal made at the community portal, i'm merging Blondie and Miss Lenhart, just like Cutie and Megan

2026-05-09T15:39:58Z

given the proposal made at the community portal, i'm merging Blondie and Miss Lenhart, just like Cutie and Megan

82.132.237.85: /* Transcript */ This should (more than) cover it, give or take terminology.

2025-08-20T17:45:33Z

‎Transcript: This should (more than) cover it, give or take terminology.

FaviFake: that’s worse. some arrows aren't mentioned and the first line if suefu

2025-08-20T10:53:57Z

that’s worse. some arrows aren't mentioned and the first line if suefu

Mathmaster at 23:00, 19 August 2025

2025-08-19T23:00:04Z

FaviFake: /* Table of conversions */

2025-07-30T08:42:09Z

‎Table of conversions

Xurkitree10: /* Table of conversions */

2025-07-30T04:12:42Z

‎Table of conversions

FaviFake: Undo revision 370327 by 162.158.178.196 (talk) what?

2025-03-25T20:45:29Z

Undo revision 370327 by 162.158.178.196 (talk) what?

162.158.178.196: /* Table of conversions */

2025-03-25T20:15:34Z

‎Table of conversions

FaviFake: Undo revision 369975 by Cheesesentience (talk)

2025-03-24T15:13:02Z

Undo revision 369975 by Cheesesentience (talk)

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 [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Danish]]
-[[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]
+[[Category:Comics featuring Miss Lenhart]]

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 This gross error is the result of repeatedly misinterpreting the number of square units as the side length of a square, thus increasing the described area by the power of two. The chain also involves converting between {{w|imperial units}} and {{w|International System of Units|SI}} units, thus introducing smaller rounding errors, and frequently switching which measurement is "a single square with sides of a certain distance" and which is "the number of squares that are each of unit length". The upshot is that, while each statement has two (or more) roughly similar measurements of area, the chain of misunderstanding ends up escalating to ever larger relative expanses. The later participants in this chain also clearly forget to sanity-check their figures, blithely informing others that an individual insect is effectively consuming impossibly huge quantities of food, and traveling enormous linear distances every day to do so. In fact, assuming the insect could continuously eat a 1cm strip of grass, it would need to travel at (2,500 miles)<sup>2</sup> / 1cm / 24 hours = 1.87×10<sup>7</sup> km/s, which is about 62 times the speed of light.
-In the final frame, [[Blondie]] further misinterprets the comparative 'area of Australia' to mean the ''actual'' land mass of Australia, with the notional insect entirely defoliating the country twice a day, presumably of whatever had managed to grow within each 12 hour cycle. This would quickly kill off a large proportion of the vegetation, leading to a decreasing food supply for the insect.
+In the final frame, [[Miss Lenhart]] further misinterprets the comparative 'area of Australia' to mean the ''actual'' land mass of Australia, with the notional insect entirely defoliating the country twice a day, presumably of whatever had managed to grow within each 12 hour cycle. This would quickly kill off a large proportion of the vegetation, leading to a decreasing food supply for the insect.
 The title text tells us that [[Randall]] once found an 80-fold error in a reported distance in a published source. However, it is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out which one. In imperial units, a mile is equal to 80 {{w|chain (unit)|chain}}s, but the 80-fold error was likely due to a different chain of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.
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 :Written out of panel: ...a 2,500-mile square, or twice the land area of Australia, per day...
-:[Hairbun is looking at her phone, with White Hat, Danish and Blondie standing next to her.]
+:[Hairbun is looking at her phone, with White Hat, Danish, and Miss Lenhart standing next to her.]
 :Hairbun: Did you hear about this insect that defoliates the entire land area of Australia twice a day?
 :White Hat: Gosh!
 :Danish: Wow.
-:Blondie: I hope at least it's contained there...
+:Miss Lenhart: I hope at least it's contained there...
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Transcript==
-{{incomplete transcript|Describe the layout of panels and arrows.}}
+:[A series of dialogues, some are shown as between drawn characters in comic panels, others appear as floating statements that consist only of a fragment of text. They snake from the top left of the comic to the bottom right, arrows illustrating the progression to each consecutive next panel/text in the sequence.]
 :[Megan is looking at her phone, with Cueball standing next to her.]
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 :Ponytail: ...a 6-centimeter (2½ inch) square of grass, or 36 cm²...
-:[Arrows now point to each consecutive conversion.]
+:[A series of non-panel statements]
 :Written out of panel: ...a 36 centimeter square, or over a square foot...
 :Written out of panel: ...a square foot, or 900 cm²...
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 :Written out of panel: ...a 2,500-mile square, or twice the land area of Australia, per day...
 :[Hairbun is looking at her phone, with White Hat, Danish and Blondie standing next to her.]
 :Hairbun: Did you hear about this insect that defoliates the entire land area of Australia twice a day?

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Megan is looking at her phone, with Cueball standing next to her. This is inside a panel]
+:[Megan is looking at her phone, with Cueball standing next to her.]
 :Megan: This newly-described insect can devour up to a square inch of grass per day.
 :Cueball: Oh, neat.
-:[Cueball is speaking to Ponytail. This is inside a panel]
+:[Cueball is speaking to Ponytail.]
 :Cueball: ...it eats a square inch, or 6 cm², of grass per day...
-[Arrow points to next panel]
-:[Ponytail is speaking to Hairy. This is inside a panel]
+:[Ponytail is speaking to Hairy.]
 :Ponytail: ...a 6-centimeter (2½ inch) square of grass, or 36 cm²...

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Megan is looking at her phone, with Cueball standing next to her.]
+:[Megan is looking at her phone, with Cueball standing next to her. This is inside a panel]
 :Megan: This newly-described insect can devour up to a square inch of grass per day.
 :Cueball: Oh, neat.
-:[Cueball is speaking to Ponytail.]
+:[Cueball is speaking to Ponytail. This is inside a panel]
 :Cueball: ...it eats a square inch, or 6 cm², of grass per day...
+[Arrow points to next panel]
-:[Ponytail is speaking to Hairy.]
+:[Ponytail is speaking to Hairy. This is inside a panel]
 :Ponytail: ...a 6-centimeter (2½ inch) square of grass, or 36 cm²...

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 The title text tells us that [[Randall]] once found an 80-fold error in a reported distance in a published source. However, it is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out which one. In imperial units, a mile is equal to 80 {{w|chain (unit)|chain}}s, but the 80-fold error was likely due to a different chain of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.
-===Table of conversions===
+===Conversions===
-Dark red to light red shows a decrease in size due to inaccurate conversion, dark green to light green shows an increase in size.
+In the table, dark green to light green shows an increase in size due to inaccurate conversion, while dark red to light red shows a decrease in size.
 {| class="wikitable sortable"
 ! Step !! Multiplier !! Total multiplier !! Square inch !! Square cm !! Square foot !! Acre !! Square meters !! Square kilometers !! Square miles

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 Dark red to light red shows a decrease in size due to inaccurate conversion, dark green to light green shows an increase in size.
 {| class="wikitable sortable"
-! Step !! Multiplier !! Total multiplier !! Square inch !! Square cm !! Square foot !! Acre !! Square meters !! Square kilometers
+! Step !! Multiplier !! Total multiplier !! Square inch !! Square cm !! Square foot !! Acre !! Square meters !! Square kilometers !! Square miles
 |-
 ! 1
-| N/A || 100% ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 1||style="background-color:red;"| 6.4516 || 0.006945 || 1.594e-7 || 0.0006451 || 6.451e-10
+| N/A || 100% ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 1||style="background-color:red;"| 6.4516 || 0.006945 || 1.594e-7 || 0.0006451 || 6.451e-10 || 2.490e-10
 |-
 ! 2
-| 0.93 || 0.93 || 0.93 ||style="background-color:pink;"| 6 || 0.006458 || 1.482e-7 || 0.0006 || 6e-1o
+| 0.93 || 0.93 || 0.93 ||style="background-color:pink;"| 6 || 0.006458 || 1.482e-7 || 0.0006 || 6e-10 || 2.316e-10
 |-
 ! 3
-| 6.00 || 5.58 || 5.58 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 36 (6<sup>2</sup>)||0.03875 ||  8.895e-7 || 0.0036 || 3.6e-9
+| 6.00 || 5.58 || 5.58 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 36 (6<sup>2</sup>)||0.03875 ||  8.895e-7 || 0.0036 || 3.6e-9 || 1.39e-9
 |-
 ! 4
-| 36.00 || 200.90 || 200.9 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,296 (36<sup>2</sup>) || style="background-color:red;"|1.395 || 3.202e-5 || 0.1296 || 1.296e-7
+| 36.00 || 200.90 || 200.9 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"|1,296 (36<sup>2</sup>) || style="background-color:red;"|1.395 || 3.202e-5 || 0.1296 || 1.296e-7 || 5.004e-8
 |-
 ! 5
-| 0.72 || 144.00 || 144 || style="background-color:red;"|929.03 || style="background-color:pink;"|1 || 2.296e-5 || 0.09290 || 9.290e-8
+| 0.72 || 144.00 || 144 || style="background-color:red;"|929.03 || style="background-color:pink;"|1 || 2.296e-5 || 0.09290 || 9.290e-8 || 3.587e-8
 |-
 ! 6
-| 0.97 || 139.50 || 139.5 || style="background-color:pink;"|900|| 0.9688 || 2.224e-5 || 0.09 ||9e-8
+| 0.97 || 139.50 || 139.5 || style="background-color:pink;"|900|| 0.9688 || 2.224e-5 || 0.09 ||9e-8 || 3.475e-8
 |-
 ! 7
-| 90,000.00 || 125,550.25 || 125,550.25 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"|810,000 (900<sup>2</sup>)|| style="background-color:green;"|871.9||0.02002 ||  81||8.1e-5
+| 90,000.00 || 125,550.25 || 125,550.25 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"|810,000 (900<sup>2</sup>)|| style="background-color:green;"|871.9||0.02002 ||  81||8.1e-5 || 3.127e-5
 |-
 ! 8
-| 1.032 || 129,600 || 129,600 || 836,127||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 900 (30<sup>2</sup>) ||0.02066||  83.61||8.361e-5
+| 1.032 || 129,600 || 129,600 || 836,127||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 900 (30<sup>2</sup>) ||0.02066||  83.61||8.361e-5 || 3.228e-5
 |-
 ! 9
-| 90,000.00 || 1.1,66e+8 || 1.166e+8 || 7.525e+8 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 810,000 (900<sup>2</sup>) || style="background-color:green;"|18.59|| 7.525e+4 || 0.07525
+| 90,000.00 || 1.1,66e+8 || 1.166e+8 || 7.525e+8 ||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 810,000 (900<sup>2</sup>) || style="background-color:green;"|18.59|| 7.525e+4 || 0.07525 || 0.02905
 |-
 ! 10
-| 1.076 || 1.255e+8 || 1.255e+8 || 8.094e+8|| 871,200||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 20|| style="background-color:green;"|8.093e+4 || 0.08093
+| 1.076 || 1.255e+8 || 1.255e+8 || 8.094e+8|| 871,200||style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 20|| style="background-color:green;"|8.093e+4 || 0.08093 || 0.03125
 |-
 ! 11
-| 7,91e+6 || 9.920e+12 || 9.920e+12 || 6.4e+13|| 6.889e+13 || 1.581e+6 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 6.4e+9 (80,000<sup>2</sup>) || 6,400
+| 7,91e+6 || 9.920e+12 || 9.920e+12 || 6.4e+13|| 6.889e+13 || 1.581e+6 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"| 6.4e+9 (80,000<sup>2</sup>) || 6,400 ||2,471
 |-
 ! 12
-| 1.00 || 9.920e+12 || 9.920e+12 || 6.4e+13|| 6.889e+13 || 1.581e+6 || 6.4e+9 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"|6,400 (80<sup>2</sup>)
+| 1.00 || 9.920e+12 || 9.920e+12 || 6.4e+13|| 6.889e+13 || 1.581e+6 || 6.4e+9 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"|6,400 (80<sup>2</sup>) ||style="background-color:green;"|2,471
 |-
 ! 13
-| 253,128 || 2.509e+16 || 2.509e+16|| 1.618e+17 || 1.7424e+14|| 4.000e12 || 1.619e+13 || 1.618e+7
+| 253,128 || 2.509e+16 || 2.509e+16|| 1.618e+17 || 1.7424e+14|| 4.000e12 || 1.619e+13 || 1.618e+7 || style="background-color:lightgreen;"|6.250e+6 (2,500<sup>2</sup>)
 |-
 |}

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	==Transcript==		==Transcript==
		+	{{incomplete transcript\|Describe the layout of panels and arrows.}}
	:[Arrows point to each consecutive panel.]		:[Arrows point to each consecutive panel.]