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182.8 Meters

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Title text: They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect.

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This is a comic in the "My Hobby" is a series of xkcd comics in which Randall suggests (hopefully fictional) hobbies he has. The hobbies tend to be clever or smart-aleck things to do. They do not always fall under the type of activity that would generally be described as a "hobby", but often are merely things Randall (or Cueball) does when certain situations arise. "My Hobby" comics are not presented regularly, but there have been a number such strips throughout the course of xkcd. These comics are similar to the much smaller collection of Pet Peeves. See also the similar categories Protip, Tips, How to annoy, Fun fact, and Facts.

Randall's hobbies are many, and there have usually been frequent returns to them, but after the February 6th 2017 comic, 1795: All You Can Eat, it took 165 comics and more than a year before the series returned with 1960: Code Golf, on 26th February 2018. This may also be related to the fun fact that the previous comic was from the Fun fact series and was the second of those released in that same month, after several years without one. See more on the page for Fun fact. To be included the two words My Hobby has to be part of the comic. So, this comic, 615: Avoidance, with the word Hobby included in the title text is not a My Hobby comic, since it does not specify that it would be Randall's hobby.

There are also several comics that describe what could be considered a hobby without the word "hobby" being mentioned. For instance, Randall seems to be interested in looking like he can predict something, by guessing, and then looking cool or the like when he guesses correctly, as happens in 2203: Prescience and other three similar comics. series, this time the hobby of reverse-engineering original units from oddly specific measurements in another unit.

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[Hairbun stands at a podium to the left, gesturing toward the sign. Four visitors stand nearby observing: Ponytail, Cueball, Megan, and White Hat. Cueball has a thought bubble.]

Cueball: (thinking) "More than"? Why would they use that for such a precise...

Cueball: (thinking) ...Aha! 100 fathoms!

[Caption below the panel:]

My Hobby: Reverse-Engineering Original Units

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This is a test. PoolloverNathan^{[stalk the blue seas]} 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 05:04) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

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interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
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