The biggest I’ve seen in a published source in the wild is an 80-fold error in a reported distance, which I think came from a series of at least three unit conversions and area/length misinterpretations.

https://explainxkcd.com/3065/

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Did you not notice the unit modifier in the my second phrase???

    Let me spell it out for you.

    3 (three) ’ (feet) ^2 (squared)

    You’d have me repeating myself like a monkey, which is, NINE.

    3 (three) sq (square) ft (feet) is THREE.

    but I suspect you’ll disagree at at this point I’ll move on, my only sadness is there was a person out there who agreed with your original argument that they were the same.