clipka <ano### [at] anonymous org> wrote:
> Warp schrieb:
> >> If you say "the room is ten feet square", you're saying the room is a square
> >> ten feet on a side. Hence, 100 square feet.
> >
> > Of course such an expression is quite incorrect, technically speaking.
> > Squares cannot be measured in feet or meters. The *sides* of the squares can.
> It is only incorrect if you're in nitpicking mode and the speaker didn't
> explicitly define the expression.
It's not nitpicking if the expression cannot be easily understood.
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- Warp
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