The notion of size can be surprisingly vague. Here’s an example. Is this a big error, or a small error: NEWS.com.au would like to apologise for their error — as we all know, Betelgeuse is the second biggest star in the Orion constellation, not the universe. The quotation is from a news article that says: […]
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Books by the foot
Wonder Book sells books to people who want a lot of them: We sell books in bulk via our “books by the foot” service supplying interior decorators, hotels, law firms and retail chains across America with inexpensive books chosen by genre, color, and size… BOOKS BY THE FOOT: With pricing starting at $6.99 per linear […]
Big: Hand
“How Big Is a Hand?”, N.D. Rossiter, P. Chapman and I.A. Haywood, Burns, vol. 22, no. 3, May 1996, pp. 230–1 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0305-4179(95)00118-2). The authors, who are at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, London, UK, report: Exactly what constitutes ‘the palm of the hand’ and how large an area this is, depends on whether you follow […]