A little nerdy Friday amusement...

I saw an article about "Mystery of dolphins' speed solved" on BBC News.
 There was a small error - the measure of force was quoted in "kilograms".

I wrote a little email ...

COMMENTS: Whoever wrote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7748754.stm
must have failed basic science.

"kg" is a measure of mass, but the story uses "kg" as a measure of
force.

Force is measured in Newtons (N)!

I got a nice email back this morning saying
Many thanks for alerting us. This error has now been corrected.

So, I went to have a look ..  and they have changed "kg" to the imperial mass
measure, lbs, and added "of force".

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Brian Butterworth

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