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== Anime and Manga ==
* The first English dub of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' falls victim to this trope: When Bulma is explaining to the group why traveling to Namek would be impossible, she gives her answer in years, then promptly adds "And that's in light-years!" [[Hand Wave|Perhaps]] Bulma is distinguishing years in an ordinary slower-than-light craft from years at ''c''.
* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Ryuken tells his injured son that if he yell 5 Hertz louder he'll reopen his wounds (basically telling him to shut up), but Hertz is a measure of frequency (high or low) not intensity (decibels in the case of sound). But then Ishida ''is'' kind of a [[Glass Cannon]], [[
== Comic Books ==
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** It also plays with this trope with some things, such as freem, which are explained as the amount of pay a "Poliflorian Hypernetter earns about two thousand Freem during one Efrickalian work-week."
** Comparison of [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-02-08 two] [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-03-05 strips] from the ''sixth'' book suggest he's confused diameter and radius.
* ''Luke Surl'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120506085222/http://www.lukesurl.com/archives/1607 shows] a confusion of angle units [[Exposition Diagram|on a chart]].
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' shows [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=330 self-explaining one].
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' reminds us: pay attention to avoiding [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20010930 this] while attempting a [["Mission Impossible" Cable Drop]]. Ouch.
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