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Math Error May Mean MP3.com Owes More in LawsuitThe verdict in a copyright lawsuit against MP3.com that resulted in a six-figure award for Tee Vee Toons, an independent record label company, may have included a mathematical error representing a difference of millions of dollars.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/10/technology/10MUSI.html
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-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001
And NASA missed the Mars landing becuse they couldn't convert English to metric.
-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001
How about refueling your jetliner in Canada and getting liters when you thought you got gallons?
-- Anonymous, April 10, 2001
Metric makes much more sense than our method of measurement. The problem was parents couldn't or wouldn't help their kids who were learning it. So the soda pop method is the best idea anyone ever came up with. I am pleased to see so many things in metric these day in the grocery store, although it frustrates a lot of older people.
-- Anonymous, April 11, 2001