I have a question regarding this quote from a website:
"For the Brobdingnagians, their size can be deduced to be 12 times that of Gulliver, based on the following indirect statement:
How were they able to deduce that the height of Brobdingnagians are 12 times Gulliver? Thanks!
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"For the Brobdingnagians, their size can be deduced to be 12 times that of Gulliver, based on the following indirect statement:
“…a hailstone is near eighteen hundred times as large as one in Europe.” (Chapter V)" - https://jps.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12576-018-00655-4
How were they able to deduce that the height of Brobdingnagians are 12 times Gulliver? Thanks!
P.S. I am not sure if this is the right category to post this on, but let me know.