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I’m sure they have the right number. Mine was a ballpark estimate, as one does in physics. I think Proxima Centauri is about 4.2ly from Earth.

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“But the closest star is Sol”

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I was just doing the extra conversion because the comic is in miles. The figures are pretty close, and the extra .2ly would account for the discrepancy. Looks good to me!

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Yes, too much rounding will do that (also the approximation of a year shaved off more than a percent). Taking more precise numbers, it fits:

4.2465 ly * 365.2425 days/yr * 24 * 3,600 * 299,792,458 km/s * 0.6214 ~ 24.96 e15 miles

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