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Youâve probably heard about a space ship hitting badly Venus or Mars, I donât remember, because of miscalculations, right? Well, thatâs everywhere. When you do your taxes, when you calculate your retirement or when you receive an inheritance. All are miscalculation errors. In construction, there are everywhere. In 1970, during the construction of the Kadena Air Base Bridge in Okinawa, Japan, engineers made a slight miscalculation. As usual⌠Two teams started building from opposite sides of the river, expecting to meet perfectly in the middle. But when they finally got close... one side was 2 meters higher than the other! I mean⌠not 1 cm, not 2 cm, not 10 cm⌠just 2 meters. The error? One team had used metric measurements, while the other worked in imperial units. If you think that this is impossible today, youâre absolutely wrong. If you donât believe me, check this list of lessons learnt from my last project. â
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