mathNEWS Issue 78.5: Friday, November 6, 1998

Oops!

Oops! is brought to you by erasers. Don't make a mistake without one!

[Photo]

On March 13, 1987, Joe Staves made this mistake while adding numbers:

$250,000,000 x 2 = $250,000,002

Because of that tiny mistake, look what happened!

[SkyDome photo]

"Whoops! I should have multiplied the numbers together!"

$250,000,000 x 2 = $500,000,000

[Photo]

"There, that's the real price of the SkyDome! If I had done it right the first time, maybe this wouldn't have happened."

[SkyDome photo]

Oops! is brought to you by erasers. Don't make a mistake without one!



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