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gleennyesterday at 6:37 PM2 repliesview on HN

One of the Mars landers famously failed due to unit conversion errors from metric to standard.


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blemasleyesterday at 7:15 PM

I didn't know the imperial system was named "standard". Funny, cause its everything but standard both internationally and its definitions (which are not standard as based on SI)

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golem14yesterday at 7:00 PM

Wasn't it (also?) the Ariane V flight in 1996? Oh, NVM, that was an overflow error.