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To: fanfan

” Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet. “

Wrong! Off by a factor of 10! (Actual interior volume of the tower is about 150,000 cubic feet.)

Yet another example of the pitiful innumeracy rampant in the mass media.

An ordinary, smallish, house has a volume of about 15,000 cubic feet. That should have tipped off the author of the article to, at least, ask someone who completed one high school math course to check the figures.


6 posted on 11/22/2007 12:11:39 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

LOL.

I wouldn’t have known, but I don’t write ‘em, I just post ‘em.


15 posted on 11/22/2007 12:20:03 PM PST by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

I think the bell itself is called Big Ben. The tower it is in is another matter.


37 posted on 11/22/2007 1:16:15 PM PST by casino66 ( If I vote Dem I'll get everything 'free')
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