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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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That is ANNOYING, but it's also an indictment of Baen who published it. No way that should have gotten through. It clearly should have been either 80 cm, or 800 mm. But not 800 cm.