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by lostlogin 845 days ago
The accidental crap can go a long way. I recall someone using a superscript ‘O’ as a degrees symbol in a medical report. This then got converted to a non—superscript character and rather changed the meaning. Extra unhelpful was that they wrote the word ‘degrees’ after the attempt at the symbol too.
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There's also the Spanish superscript a and o symbols (used for ordinals) that can be confused for this.
“patient’s temperature was approaching 100O degrees”

Very nice error :D

It was a measurement of angle for an ortho surgeon. However as you point out, wrong by a x10 multiplier has the sanity checks kicking in.