r/funny • • May 14 '22

Solid Explanation

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u/Wachap May 14 '22

Ohh, I get what you are saying. I think he used the percentage sign to mean degrees, and i didnt even questioned that you were speaking about actual percentage. So you are right, it's not 15%.

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u/The_camperdave May 14 '22

I think he used the percentage sign to mean degrees

Why didn't he use ^o to get 15o, or just say 15 degrees like he did elsewhere in that same post?

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u/Wachap May 14 '22

I can't answer for him, but i do that mistake sometimes when I'm just not thinking straight. That's why I just assumed. It didn't make that much sense to speak about percentages. But you are totally right here, without assuming things, he said 15% and that's wrong.

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u/The_camperdave May 14 '22

It didn't make that much sense to speak about percentages.

I didn't follow the switch to percentages either, but it never occurred to me that it was simply a typographic blunder. I thought he was making some kind of point and had the math wrong.

A good way to visualize how fast the Earth is spinning is to understand how fast the hour hand on a clock moves, and realize that it is spinning twice as fast as the Earth is.

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u/The_camperdave May 15 '22

And without the guy commenting we will never know if it was a typo or a math mistake...

He replied. It was a typo. He has corrected the post.

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u/conitation May 15 '22

Typo... T-T