- David Wells-Wallace, The Inhospitable Earth, pg 170
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but 100 M units at $30 k/unit is $3 trillion, not $30 trillion. So then the last number is $30 T, not $300 trillion.
Big difference!!
Getting the arithmetic right means a lot to me, and the units, and the basic physics, etc. I'm baffled about why none of Well-Wallace's pre-publication readers or editors didn't see this error and correct it. I hope no one does this for my book.
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Since you are complaining about proof reading. Is it "The Uninhabitable Earth" or "The Inhospitable Earth"?
Yes, I got that wrong at first, but corrected it within about 10 minutes !
Anyway, a misspelling is nothing at all like being off by a factor of 10.
Said I.
Depends what you misspell, David. Even a simple missing comma could have dire consequences:
"Let's eat, grandma!"
"Let's eat grandma!"
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