[WikiEN-l] Oops (or, be careful when quoting Wikipedia in your newspaper, part 2)

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

Perhaps they should higher a toddler to do the counting for them.
I know a few who could do a better job counting than they've done...

Mgm

On 3/15/07, Earle Martin <wikipedia at downlode.org> wrote:
>
> London has a free daily newspaper called [[thelondonpaper]]. Every
> day, on the puzzles page, there's a little factoid at the top of the
> page. Today it said:
>
>     [in Big Type:] 670.6
>     The number of miles per hour at which light travels.
>     source: en.wikipedia.org
>
> Oh dear. I think the word "million" went missing somewhere. From
> [[speed of light]]:
>
>     "Converted to imperial units, the speed of light is
> approximately... 670,616,629.384 miles per hour, or almost one foot
> per nanosecond."
>
> I just hope that people realise the error was on their part, not ours.
> (Probably, considering that they also had a story today titled "Jolie
> Adopts Fourth Child", which began "Angelina Jolie today adopted a
> third child...")
>
>
> --
> Earle Martin
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> http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/
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