CORRECTIONS Public Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 34, August 22, 2004, Article 5
CORRECTIONS
Gar Travis was kind enough to point out the typo in one
of last week's headlines. It should have read "ANS
Olympic COIN and Medal Exhibit Catalog."Joel Orosz writes: "I just noticed that both the August 8
and August 15 issues of the E-Sylum are headed "v7#32."[Oops - it takes a sharp-eyed reader to catch an error
like that. Thanks, Joel. The number of this week's issue
has been corrected to #34. Mistakes like these can
compound themselves. Those of you who have been
reading The E-Sylum for a while might remember this
item from the v3#1 issue (January 2, 2000):"... mishaps aren't limited to numismatic publications. An
Associated Press article published today reports, "Normally
punctilious about correcting its own errors, The New York
Times used the new millennium to fess up to a mistake that
had appeared on its front page every day for more than a
century.Saturday's Times is actually issue No. 51,254 - not
51,754.You hadn't noticed? - Neither had anyone else, according
to the paper, until 24-year-old news assistant Aaron Donovan
recently "became curious about the numbering" ... and
"wondered about the potential for self-perpetuating error."Using a spreadsheet program, Donovan ran the numbers
back to issue No. 1 on Sept. 18, 1851, and discovered they
added up to 500 fewer than had been thought. Then, doing
further research, he homed in on Feb. 6, 1898, as the date
of infamy.On that day, he found, a now-anonymous predecessor ...
added 1 to 14,499 and came up with 15,000 rather than
14,500."- 2004-08-22
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