Error'd: It Figures

...or actually, it doesn't. A few fans found figures that just didn't add up. Here they are.

Steven J Pemberton deserves full credit for this finding."My bank helpfully reminds me when it's time to pay mybill, and normally has no problem getting itright. But this month, the message sent Today 08:02,telling me I had to pay by tomorrow 21-Nov was senton... 21-Nov. The amount I owed was missing the decimal point. They then apologisedfor freaking me out, but got that wrong too, by notreplacing the placeholder for the amount I really needed to pay."

FaithfulMichael R. levels a charge of confusion against what looks like.. Ticketmaster, maybe?"My card indeed ends with 0000. Perhaps they do some weird math with their cc numbersto store them as numerics." It's not so much weird math as simply reification. Your so called "credit card number" is not actually a number; it is a digit string. Andthe last four digits are also a digit string.

Marc Wurth, who still uses Facebook, gripes that their webdevsalso don't understand the difference between numbers and digit strings."Clicking on Mehr dazu (Learn more), tells me:
> About facebook.com on older versions of mobile browsers
> [...]
> Visit facebook.com from one of these browsers, if it's available to download on your mobile device:
> [...]
> Firefox (version 48 or higher)
> [...]
Um... Facebook, guess what modern mobile web browser I'm viewing you, right now? [132.0.2 from 2024-11-10]"

Self-styled dragoncoder047 is baffled by what is probably a real simple bug in some display logic reporting the numeratorwhere it should display the denominator (2). Grumbles DC "Somebody please explain to me how 5+2+2+2+2+2+2+0.75+2+2=23. If WebAssignitself can't even master basic arithmetic, how can I trust it teaching me calculus?"

Finally Andrew C. has a non-mathematical digit or two to share, assuming you're inclined to obscure puns."As well as having to endure the indignity of job seeking, now I get called names too!"This probably requires explanation for those who are not bothnative speakers of the King's Englishand familiar with cryptographic engineering.

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