The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 34, August 22, 2004, Article 5

CORRECTIONS

  Gar Travis was kind enough to point out the typo in one
  of last week's headlines.  It should have read "ANS
  Olympic COIN and Medal Exhibit Catalog."

  Joel Orosz writes: "I just noticed that both the August 8
  and August 15 issues of the E-Sylum are headed "v7#32."

  [Oops - it takes a sharp-eyed reader to catch an error
  like that.  Thanks, Joel.  The number of this week's issue
  has been corrected to #34.    Mistakes like these can
  compound themselves.  Those of you who have been
  reading The E-Sylum for a while might remember this
  item from the v3#1 issue (January 2, 2000):

  "... mishaps aren't limited to numismatic publications.   An
  Associated Press article published today  reports, "Normally
  punctilious about correcting its own errors,  The New York
  Times used the new millennium to fess up to a mistake that
  had appeared on its front page every day for more than a
  century.

  Saturday's Times is actually issue No. 51,254 - not
  51,754.

  You hadn't noticed? - Neither had anyone else, according
  to the paper, until 24-year-old news assistant Aaron Donovan
  recently "became curious about the numbering" ... and
  "wondered about the potential for self-perpetuating error."

  Using a spreadsheet program, Donovan ran the numbers
  back to issue No. 1 on Sept. 18, 1851, and discovered they
  added up to 500 fewer than had been thought.  Then, doing
  further research, he homed in on Feb. 6, 1898, as the date
  of infamy.

  On that day, he found, a now-anonymous predecessor ...
  added 1 to 14,499 and came up with 15,000 rather than
  14,500."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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