Potholes bigger than the Isle of Wight

[Lxb3]

This is why you shouldn't believe everything (sometimes, ANYTHING) that you read in the papers...

Nation's potholes are bigger than the Isle of Wight | Metro News

Now, I saw the original news release from this, from the PR company for LV (who own Britannia Rescue). The chump got his maths completely wrong. He added up the estimated number of potholes in the UK, and found an estimate for the average diameter... so far, so good. Then, he converted the length in millimetres (142mm, I think it was from memory) into a total length in miles - 17.2 miles - if you laid them all out in a straight line. OK, no problem. Then, er, he multiplied 17.2 miles by 17.2 miles to get a square-mile area. :fail
It should have been 17.2 miles x 142 mm. Which is something like 0.01 square miles.

Amazing. The Telegraph, at least, had the sense to check the maths and pull the article before it went live!

 

[flango]

I once had similar to this, couldn't work out why on a particular plant I couldn't get the volume of liquid flow needed to the process. Checked everything in the spec and design until I got right to the front of the circuit, where what should have been a 28" diameter pipe were 2 x 14" pipes as they had run out of 28" pipe :fail

 

[Lxb3]

...see, I didn't completely waste the engineering degree I didn't complete...

 

[Lxb3]

I once had similar to this, couldn't work out why on a particular plant I couldn't get the volume of liquid flow needed to the process. Checked everything in the spec and design until I got right to the front of the circuit, where what should have been a 28" diameter pipe were 2 x 14" pipes as they had run out of 28" pipe :fail

That's the same kind of logic which suggests that if you fit a 4"-diameter exhaust (only the back box, mind) it'll make your Micra much faster, 'coz more exhausts can flow froo it, innit.

 

[swannymere]

Telegraph is the new Daily Mail when it comes to facts.