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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow did the idiot come up with 38 million for the population of Seoul?
One theory is that some WH staffer googled Seoul and saw "38 m" which is its elevation; 38 meters.
Saw this on Morning Joe and had to google it myself. Can they be this incompetent?
Seoul - Wikipedia
Seoul officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. With the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province, ...
Region?: ?Seoul Capital Area Song?: ?"S.E.O.U.L"
Elevation?: ?38 m (125 ft) Bird?: ?Korean magpie
samnsara
(17,640 posts)dchill
(38,546 posts)... because they don't pay him to. Also, he can't read.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)Trump thinking there.
Igel
(35,359 posts)I have students who'd read that as 38 meters, others who'd read that as 38 mass, others as 38 momentum, some as 38 million and others (a causa de espanol) as 38 thousand.
It's like those who round 1.33 x 10^8 as 1.3.
Can't get them to slow down and actually think. "What's 38 mass mean? Or is 38 momentum noticeably more than 380 momentum?" Why? Because there's a TikTok they have to watch, or they're worried they'll be disliked if they don't text their friends back quickly enough.