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Originally Posted by Maksutov
As a metrologist, I find the convenience of movie quantities very amusing.
Such as...
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Well, the first two are indeed just wrong. The remainder can be lumped into either hyperbolie or convient rounding.
Real-Life examples abound. For instance if I said the population of the world was 6.5 Billion I don't think people would think I ment there was
literally 6,500,000,000 people on the planet.
Or if I said Star Trek was a hundered times better than Star Wars people would either assume A) I was making a general, non-quantifiable opinion B) I was obviously lacking in taste C) I needed to be beat up or D) I was a troll intent on starting a flame war.
(P.S. the answer is "D"
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