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							Sat 27 Jan, 2018 03:10 am
						
						
					
					
					
						Four students are crammed into a 160 sq m cabin on the campus of Beihang University, testing the limits of humans' ability to live in a self-contained space.
Does the bold part lack punctuation?
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												Personally, I would have written "a 160-square-metre cabin". That is, in the compound phrase "number-square-metre", the words in full, and joined by hyphens. If a compound phrase (number + noun) serves as an adjective and comes before the noun it modifies, it usually needs hyphens:
a three-and-a-half-bathroom home
a four-bedroom townhouse
a 600-square-foot studio
a 2,000-square-foot, fully renovated four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom home
Note: Americans usually write "meter".
											
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
												A person who is a fool and a coward hiding behind a mask of anonymity thumbed me down, yet what I wrote is still true.
											
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
													@centrox,
												centrox wrote:
A person who is a fool and a coward hiding behind a mask of anonymity thumbed me down, yet what I wrote is still true.
 
Hi centrox,
What you have posted above shouldn't be here. Am I right?
											
 
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
													@centrox,
												centrox wrote:
tanguatlay wrote:What you have posted above shouldn't be here. Am I right?
 
You are not right.
 
 
I don't see any anonymous poster here.
											 
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
												Thanks for pointing out what you meant. I can understand why you are upset. 
 
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													@centrox,
												centrox, I restored your thumb. Everything you said is correct. 
I don't know if it's the same person, but someone often votes me down on the beautiful animals thread. Why? Dunno. 
											
 
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
													@Roberta,
												Roberta wrote:someone often votes me down on the beautiful animals thread. Why? Dunno. 
 
I am aware that some people thumb posts down in order to collapse them, as a kind of "mark as read" thing, and they do not mean to express displeasure or disagreement.
											
 
					
				 
																
						
														
					
													@centrox,
												I'm aware of that too. However, this happens a lot. Although it may be someone collapsing a thread occasionally, I believe that someone is giving me a thumbs down for other reasons.