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In The Romance Resonance he read a data table in a text book wrong

Sheldon: This is the very copy of The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics in which I looked up the reaction rates of mendelevium and…

Amy: And what?

Sheldon: No. No, no, no, no.

Amy: What’s wrong?

Sheldon: I’ve made a horrible mistake.

Amy: What are you talking about?

Sheldon: This table, it’s in square centimetres. I read it as square metres. You know what that means?

Amy: That Americans can’t handle the metric system?

Sheldon: Amy, I was off by a factor of 10,000.

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