Arithmetic that makes you cringe

[Polar Bear]

Surely it's a quadricycle, no?

[Cudzoziemiec]

It is a quad.

[Davef]

It is 3 bicycles- 2 of them in close formation.

[Giraffe]

Bike, trike, quike.

[Mr Larrington]

Bike, trike, quike.

… Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir?

[Wowbagger]

Bike, trike, quike.

… Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir?

But can it go where a car goes?

[hatler]

Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,

[Mr Larrington]

With a cargo of ivory,
And AK47s and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood*, and sweet white wine

* wouldn’t it have been easier to hew the cedars out of Lebanon?

[chris]

From digitalcameraworld.com, proof that PI is equal to 1 -

“To put it into more dramatic context, if you laid all of those 150 million lenses end to end, they would measure approximately 7,736 miles – which is nearly enough to wrap around planet Earth, whose diameter is around 7,917 miles.”

[Davef]

..... starting in Alaska and heading due west.

[hellymedic]

Beeb story about breast reduction:

Lyndsey Nurse said she understood all too well Mrs Michaud's struggle. With 36 K breasts, her chest weighs 2st (13kg), the equivalent of 14 bags of sugar.

What size are those sugar bags?

To be fair, 2 stone is 14 2lb bags of sugar but my sugar bags have been a kilo for AGES now.
2 stone is less than 13kg thobut.

[citoyen]

Beeb story about breast reduction:

Lyndsey Nurse said she understood all too well Mrs Michaud's struggle. With 36 K breasts, her chest weighs 2st (13kg), the equivalent of 14 bags of sugar.

What size are those sugar bags?

To be fair, 2 stone is 14 2lb bags of sugar but my sugar bags have been a kilo for AGES now.
2 stone is less than 13kg thobut.

This is infuriating!

I’m all in favour of rounding off conversions when the numbers are approximate (presumably her breasts don’t weigh *exactly* 2st, so 13kg is probably just as accurate) but a bit of intelligence needs to be applied to ensure the numbers still make sense.

[Davef]

Beeb story about breast reduction:

Lyndsey Nurse said she understood all too well Mrs Michaud's struggle. With 36 K breasts, her chest weighs 2st (13kg), the equivalent of 14 bags of sugar.

What size are those sugar bags?

To be fair, 2 stone is 14 2lb bags of sugar but my sugar bags have been a kilo for AGES now.
2 stone is less than 13kg thobut.

It is rounded to an integer number of sugar bags per breast obviously. Asymmetry at that order of magnitude could be problematic.

[hellymedic]

I am on injected medication I take three times per week.
My supplier phoned yesterday evening.

'How many syringes do you have left?'
'Eleven'
'When are you next due to inject?'
'Tonight.'
'So you'll have thirteen left?'
'No, I'll have ten.'

!!!

[Giraffe]

Well, eleven does sound similar to fourteen, innit.

[Pickled Onion]

A puff piece from my local council:

Healthy
Beat the Street - active project that got 8,000 residents walking, running and cycling 73,000 miles from March to May 2019

Ignoring the fact they're bragging about this nearly two years later, that works out at roughly 160 metres per person per day. Probably achievable with a few trips from the sofa to the fridge.

[JStone]

According to Tesco, 5 x 10 = 51. Still, every little helps - their profits

[grams]

If an onion weighs 120g on average then the maths works out.

It should say £0.102 each though perhaps that would scare the horses.

(It belongs in UI design that makes you cringe)

[Giraffe]

On a proggy about rivers, boat could cruise at 9 knots/hour. Ignoring cruise, assuming fuel for 24h, how fast would it be going after 24h?

Some article I saw, can't unforget what, one nautical mile with metric in brackets: 1,9** (can't remember the last 2 figures). About 1,850m? Even 1,760 doesn't come to that - I did wonder if the author had used yards in a mile.

[hellymedic]

The pedant in me dislikes knots per hour.

Either knots or nautical miles per hour.

Perleaze!

[SteveC]

Some article I saw, can't unforget what, one nautical mile with metric in brackets: 1,9** (can't remember the last 2 figures). About 1,850m? Even 1,760 doesn't come to that - I did wonder if the author had used yards in a mile.

According to the usual source of (mis)information, the nautical mile is now defined as 1852m.

[Davef]

The pedant in me dislikes knots per hour.

Either knots or nautical miles per hour.

Perleaze!

Perhaps they were referring to an acceleration of 9 knots/hour, to give a final velocity of 216 knots.

[Kim]

If an onion weighs 120g on average then the maths works out.

It should say £0.102 each though perhaps that would scare the horses.

(It belongs in UI design that makes you cringe)

This sort of thing happens all the time where fractional pennies exist, but aren't rendered.  Sort of thing they do to keep accounts auditors on their toes.

[Giraffe]

Item on the Beeb's site:
"Two-time defending champion Mo Farah's hopes of representing Great Britain in the Olympic 10,000m seem to be over after he fell short of the qualifying mark in the European 10,000m Cup.

The 38-year-old was eighth, behind fellow Briton Marc Scott, in a race that doubled as the Olympic trial.

Farah's time of 27 minutes 50.54 seconds in Birmingham was more than 22 seconds short of the required time."

[fd3]

The pedant in me dislikes knots per hour.

Thanks for that, I know f-all about boats but my first through on reading that was "isn't knots a unit of speed?"  (I believe due to the expression "travelling at a rate of knots" which implies that whatever a knot is, it measure speed).