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Originally Posted by HarryT
I recently reported that I'd really enjoyed "The Lizard War", by John Dalmas, but I should add a caveat to that: the author has the protagonist use metric measurements, but the author clearly doesn't actually have a clue about the metric system, which is somewhat annoying. At one point in the story, for example, he has his ankles chained together with a chain "800cm long", which gives him room enough to do a few exercises. "800cm" is 8m, or about 25 feet! Clearly the author meant "80cm", not 800. This issue of multiplying correct lengths by 10 occurs three times that I noticed in the book.
Please learn the difference between cm and mm, Mr Dalmas!
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I should pull my paper copies and see if it is printed like that too,
Apache