why americans suck at math, part 1.609
From an otherwise okay article on Reuters today:
“If (this jet-stream shift) is going to stop and it just ends up being 70 miles, that’s not a big deal,” he said. “But if it were to continue at the same rate over the next century, then that would amount to a couple of hundred miles (kilometers) and that would start to have significant effects.”
sigh
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