Not the largest "small correction" I've ever seen.
When at University, my tutorial partner once got a physics calculation
wrong by a massive factor of 10^133. This was achieved by
inadvertently putting the square of Planck's constant on the
denominator of a fraction instead of the numerator!
Iain
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> You wrote:
>>
>> A small correction to my earlier post - the last figure should be 10^120,
>> not 120%.
>
> Ah!
>
> So THAT'S what a physicist means by a "small correction" :)
>
> Blessings,
> Murray
>
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