Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures (2016)

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Factual error: In the conference room Katherine is at the board working out of the re-entry figures. She begins by converting 17544 mph to 25371 feet per second. The correct answer is 25731, an error of just over 1 percent in the first line of her calculations. She persists with the error but, contrary to the calculations she's presented, she gives the answer that she would have obtained had she not been working with the wrong figures. She then says that her obtained answer converts to 2990 miles, which it doesn't. (01:34:50)

James the maths teacher

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Factual error: In the conference room scene Katherine presents the landing point, orally and in writing, as 5.0667° N and 77.33° W then indicates this is the target landing point in the area of the Bahamas "give or take 20 square miles." However, this latitude and longitude is actually on the Pacific coast of Colombia - about 1300 miles from the Bahamas and on the other side of Central America. (01:36:00)

James the maths teacher

Factual error: The green car that the 3 ladies are always in has a shot where you can see the brand of tires being a Hankook Optimo. This was in 1961 and these radial tires didn't exist yet.

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Karl Zielinski: Mary, a person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer. You can't be a computer the rest of your life.
Mary Jackson: Mr. Zielinski, I'm a negro woman. I'm not gonna entertain the impossible.
Karl Zielinski: And I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going to carry an astronaut to the stars. I think we can say we are living the impossible. Let me ask you, if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
Mary Jackson: I wouldn't have to. I'd already be one.

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