Additional pain & suffering: obituary errors #4
From today's Times:An obituary on Sunday about George Lenchner, father of the Math Olympiad competition for young mathematics pupils, failed a basic math test when it described the relationship between his age, 88, and the series of numbers 1, 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 44 and 88. They are the individual factors, or divisors, of 88, but not an example of how a number is factored. (Go to Article)
An obituary on Tuesday about George Crile, a television news producer, misstated part of the name of the Indiana newspaper where he worked early in his career. It was The Gary Post-Tribune (now just The Post-Tribune), not The Gary Post-Register. (Go to Article)
newspapers, New York Times, obituaries, errors
posted by Unknown @ 5/18/2006 08:56:00 AM
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