I think it’s pretty embarrassing for us as a community that this post got to >200 karma and ~30 comments before such a simple math error was found.
(I’m a culprit here too; I upvoted this post upon skimming it when it first came out, without even doing the most basic of sanity checks)
Yeah I’m personally a bit embarrassed by not catching it myself as well. I’m thankful that at least it changed very little about the thrust of the post.
I don’t think you need be embarrassed—you responded politely & not defensively. That’s definitely rarer on the internet than minor arithmetic errors!
I think it’s pretty embarrassing for us as a community that this post got to >200 karma and ~30 comments before such a simple math error was found.
(I’m a culprit here too; I upvoted this post upon skimming it when it first came out, without even doing the most basic of sanity checks)
Yeah I’m personally a bit embarrassed by not catching it myself as well. I’m thankful that at least it changed very little about the thrust of the post.
I don’t think you need be embarrassed—you responded politely & not defensively.
That’s definitely rarer on the internet than minor arithmetic errors!