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\u2026and journalists! Via Leah Libresco<\/a>, the Dictionary of Numbers:<\/p>\n

It searches the text in your browser for quantities it understands and inserts contextual statements in brackets. It might turn the phrase \u201c315 million people\u201d into \u201c315 million people [\u2248 the population of the United States]\u201c.<\/p>\n
As Glen explains, he once read an article about US wildfires which mentioned that the largest fire of the year had burned \u201c300,000 acres.\u201d This didn\u2019t mean much to Glen:<\/p>\n
I have no idea how much 300,000 acres is [\u2026] But we need to understand this number to answer the obvious question: how much of the United States was on fire? This is why I made Dictionary of Numbers.<\/p>\n
Dictionary of Numbers helpfully informs me that 300,000 acres is about the area of LA or Hong Kong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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