extra credit for finding the math error in the second article.
Well, near the start it refers to “an exponential growth of 3 per cent per year, or multiplying by about 10 every 100 years” when in fact 1.03^100 is about 19. At which point I have little confidence that that’s the mathematical error; it suggests a level of sloppiness likely to produce others.
Well, near the start it refers to “an exponential growth of 3 per cent per year, or multiplying by about 10 every 100 years” when in fact 1.03^100 is about 19. At which point I have little confidence that that’s the mathematical error; it suggests a level of sloppiness likely to produce others.
Clearly the 3% and 10 figures are given to within one significant digit each. 1.026^100 = 13.02