James Wetterau wrote:
>
> "Spike Jones" <spike66@attglobal.net> wrote:
> > > > Spike wrote: I get 847 km per second per day, c in 354 days, ignoring
> > > > the relativistic effects of course. spike
> > >
> > > Eliezer wrote:You're right. I have no idea where the 611 came from.
> >
> > Dont lose sleep over it Eliezer. Ive posted several math errors
> > on extropians which will survive in some electronic form to embarrass
> > me forever. {8^D spike
>
> Arithmetic errors happen, especially when fingers slip on keyboards.
> In this case Eliezer multipled by 2,600 seconds / hour instead of
> 3,600. How did I know?
You're *good*.
> Thus we see the wisdom of one of the few truly generally useful
> lessons from elementary school -- do your arithmetic over until the
> majority of times you've done it you got the same answer, aka check
> your work! :-)
Well, at least I double-check my taxes.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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