I don't know who told you that, but they were weirdly confused. The bitcoin whitepaper told them that, in more than one place too, so it's not a simple typo, e

I don't know who told you that, but they were weirdly confused. The bitcoin whitepaper told them that, in more than one place too, so it's not a simple typo, e.g. ...we implement the proof-of-work by incrementing a nonce in the block until a value is found that gives the block's hash the required zero bits.