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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by cfiggers on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @08:36AM (#35438626)
Grammatically, 1.5 donut is wrong and 1.5 donuts is correct. So, in this case "1.66~ dozens" (because 20 / 12 = 1.66~) is pedantically correct.

(...But logically and intuitively everything I just said is extremely stupid because by that logic 12.01 counts as "dozens" and that's ridiculous, so your complaint is absolutely correct and I agree with you 100%)

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Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners by recursive on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:55AM (#35440656)
Grammatically, 0.2 donut is wrong also. So by that logic, 0.01 also counts as dozens.

I'd argue that "dozens" obviously means there are a multiple of 12.

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