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More related to the headline than the article but I was once at an election count where a candidate received 10,000 votes. The returning officer read out (some
by learnstats2 6y ago
More related to the headline than the article but I was once at an election count where a candidate received 10,000 votes.
The returning officer read out (something like):
"Candidate One, four thousand three hundred and seventy nine.
Candidate Two, ten thousand.
Candidate Three,..."
He was immediately interrupted by the buzz of people in the room trying to work out what just happened.
- JoeSmithson 6y agoLike how Everest was measured to be exactly 29000ft (in 1850s) but they thought no-one would believe how accurately they had surveyed it, so they reported it as 29002ft
- vharuck 6y agoMore than once have I gotten a result at work like "88,888 cases" and then spent days making sure it wasn't a horrible bug.