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A comment on Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk.

Re:Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk by vacri on Sunday January 25, 2015 @08:50AM (#8942906)
Milton notes that .6 miles of new ground requires 37.5 million cubic meters of fill

.6 miles is 1 kilometer. Why would you convert to imperial for one measure, but leave the second as metric?

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Re:Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk by jacques_chester on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:45AM (#8943021)
I'm going to guess that they didn't know how to do the volumetric conversion.
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