He ran at 19.475 kilometres an hour, which is a marathon in about two hours ten. Quick, but human.
A French newspaper reports that the winner of a race in Paris averaged 19,475 kilometres an hour. The paper hasn’t made a mistake. How?
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Look at the punctuation.
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In France the comma is the decimal point
Source: Jed Hartman’s list of situation puzzles, no. 2.24, worded by Dmitry Apresian