International banking monolith HSBC has rather churlishly reprogrammed its magnificent "Find your nearest branch" service so that customers are no longer given the distance to their closest tentacle to within a couple of quarks.

Last week, we discovered that Vulture Central and HSBC's Gerrard Street branch were separated by exactly 0.10956224649966498 miles:

However, following what we imagine was a fraught crisis meeting at the highest levels of the company, conducted behind closed doors as panicked execs pondered Powerpoint doomsday presentations of the potential impact of sub-atomic accuracy on the bank's share price, this is how far it now is from El Reg to Gerrard Street:

For shame. We're sure those of you who like to know your proximity to a cash machine to the nearest femtolinguine will join us in protesting this outrageous jiggery-pokery. ®

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Thanks to Douglas de Lacey for the update.

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