9mm for those wanting sane units. Edit for clarity: this refers to the fractional inches, not the 4 inch figure which, as another poster points out, is a bit north of 10cm.
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That's "American" for a round used in a personal protection weapon. So, who is sane now?
Lmao I knew your username was a familiar sequence to me and I started to say it out loud. Next thing I knew I went full Richard Ayoade with it. 10/10.
Goal: Achieved
Hahahaha
Pfft. There's nothing sane here.
Not even close? If you meant CENTImeters then it's closer to 10cm. EDIT: four inches = 10.16 centimeters
The radius is about .35 inches
Which is 9mm. I have edited my post to indicate this for clarity. I had assumed that "fractional inches" was the part that was least sane and thought others would think the same.
as an American i can recognize 9mm because that's the size of a handgun bullet :3
That Schwarzschild radius is larger than I expected. I was expecting sub-molecular.
Shouldn't 7/10" actually be 7/20"?
What in the motherfuck are those numbers
What the fuck is wrong with your units
They’re literally called rational numbers
The same question is in the discussion section in ExplainXKCD, so I can confidently use the reply given there: No, 7/20" is the radius, but 7/10" is correct for the diameter.
Oh right, didn't pay enough attention. But it was the first thing I saw in the morning.
Notice how the lines the 7/10" is attached to go from one side of the miniature globe to the other? This indicates that measurement is meant to be a diameter. Looking back at the paragraph before he talks about 0.35" being Earth's Schwarzschild Radius. Radius is half of diameter so doubling that radius you get 0.7 or 7/10" across at which the Earth would become a black hole.
That's what that mini diagram is showing.
There's also the fact that people might not be able to use it if it's too small.
4" is a respectable size, okay? It's nothing to scoff at.
It's all about your spin game anyways
subdued scoffing
Maybe its less about the size and more about the technique?