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xkcd #2888: US Survey Foot (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by p1mrx@sh.itjust.works to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

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Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!

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[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 68 points 8 months ago

Shout out to Carl Edvard Johansson for fixing this problem by defining the industrial inch at exactly 25.4 mm.

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 66 points 8 months ago

Alt text: Subway refuses to answer my questions about whether it's an International Footlong or a US Survey Footlong. A milligram of sandwich is at stake!

[-] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

oops, I was supposed to put that in the post body. Fixed.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

Also, the NIST goon squad there is only 84.48 feet off from the perp's location...

[-] palitu@aussie.zone 38 points 8 months ago

But which foot?!!

[-] corvi@lemm.ee 28 points 8 months ago

As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Ah yes. Zeno's left foot.

[-] Asweet@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hmmm sounds like someone is looking for a hard to find…

…Big Foot

[-] athos77@kbin.social 15 points 8 months ago

https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2888:_US_Survey_Foot

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