alt Hacker News"I must've put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. I always mess up some mundane detail."
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anvuong • today at 8:48 PM
Multiple rockets exploded and space missions failed because of the imperial vs. metric BS, and those mistakes were made by people all with PhDs or equivalences. This is still pretty mild in comparison haha.
Units and datetime will always be the bane of any professions ...
Unit mistakes happen all the time, which is why you should be using your units library religiously and still being vigilant even then.
Worst case I've found was off by 15 orders of magnitude.