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"Editors" are the ones that are charged with correcting the reporter's grammar. They should also catch stupid mistakes. Or at least, assign fact checkers. If I see/hear/read a news story with grammar or arithmetic errors, I have to question "what else did they get wrong?"

Even the talking heads reading the news on TV are terrible. Time was, they were educated, well spoken individuals. Not anymore.

Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.

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I forgot how to write 1, 1000, 51, 6, and 500 in Roman numerals. I’M LIVID.

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near Reno, NV. 30 sec exposure ISO 320, f 3.5, 18 mm on DX sensor

@approximatelysphere 's "about" info says Canada. I'm not sure what school "UK" is.

Let's say you ride your bike from home to school. Also, say the trip is 4 km, and you leave home at noon. If you arrive at school at 12:20, you can easily find your average speed (##v=\frac {\Delta x}{\Delta t}=\frac {4 km}{0.33 hour}=12 \frac{km}{hr}##). But during the ride you speed up...

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Interesting take on "the good old days." I would add the cable TV movie services to the list of examples. It started as "pay us $5 a month and watch movies without ads." Now it is $10 and they pipe in advertising. Ugh.

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Source? I don't have any idea, but Wiki says