I jokingly proposed when we were coming up with the read times, that every equation should add 30 minutes to your expected reading time. And somehow we introduced a bug that did exactly that.
[Stephen Hawking] notes in [A Brief History of Time]’s acknowledgements that he was warned that for every equation in the book, the readership would be halved, hence it includes only a single equation: E=mc2.
I jokingly proposed when we were coming up with the read times, that every equation should add 30 minutes to your expected reading time. And somehow we introduced a bug that did exactly that.
To think he could have had twice as many readers.