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When I was in a teenager I worked in a bank doing data entry of bank account applications. A couple of years later I spent a LOT of time doing ETL and digging i
by radicalbyte 3y ago
When I was in a teenager I worked in a bank doing data entry of bank account applications. A couple of years later I spent a LOT of time doing ETL and digging into older databases. So I have enough experience to be able to say this:
This example is clearly a data entry error - 2024 - 942 = 1982. Errors like this are super common, loads of people have the writing ability of toddlers with ADHD so you see a lot of mistakes around especially around these numbers: 0/8/9, 2/7, 4/9 and 1/7
"One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century."
- forinti 3y agoThe poor fella might be guarding an ark somewhere.
- vsnf 3y ago> 2024 - 942 = 1982 My math is rusty to be sure, but I'm pretty sure 2024 - 942 = 1082. In this case, I suppose the data entry error is that someone somewhere accidentally entered a birth year as 1082, instead of 1982, corrupting the 9 for a 0 because they can look similar when sloppily written and also because they are adjacent on a keyboard.
- rad_gruchalski 3y agoThe original problem being that it should have been 2024 - 42.
- dotancohen 3y agoYes, that is exactly the mistake that GP is elucidating.
- edvards 3y agoGP?
- whilenot-dev 3y agoGP = Grandparent / reference to the poster of the comment 2 levels above
- vsnf 3y agoYes, but it was unclear to me until I worked through it because op didn’t make it as obvious as it could have been. I figured if I was confused others might be too, so I typed it out explicitly.
- levidos 3y agoI did kept thinking too. Thanks for pointing it out.
- samus 3y agoMaybe 2024 - 1942?
- cyanydeez 3y agoor a bizarre Y2K problem
- radicalbyte 3y agoYeah you're right - I re-structured my post before hitting on "reply" and mangled what was originally something like this: 2024 - 942 = 1082 instead of 1982. (I also removed a detailed description of how these errors are usually caused by a mistype by those who do not use a keyboard with a number pad and by poor handwriting making 0 and 9 look similar.. but I cut that out as otherwise we're be here all day reading my rambling thoughts).
- igleria 3y agothen 2024 - 123 = 1901 seems a similar case to this and would be 1991 and the article then does not make sense?
- fhars 3y ago1901 might also be an artefact of data with invalid dates passing through legacy systems that only support dates between 1901 and 2099 (because both 1900 and 2100 are non-leap years divisible by 4, breaking naive time calculations).
- fuzzy_biscuit 3y agoDon't we mean 2024 - 42? As in they missed a keystroke?