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Guess What Book I Am Currently Reading

Wowbagger said:
Matt Parker ain't J.K. Rowling.

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That’s true. There’s more humour in his book. :-)
But with todays global economies and Amazon being everywhere, I had expected differently.
 
Wowbagger said:
I could have gotten it earlier from Amazon.co.uk, but I decided to wait until I could buy it from a local book store. Sometimes, you gotta support your local book stores.
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Very true. If possible, I do that as well.
 
I see that, for some reason, the original title was: Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors. I guess Americans are too dumb to get the Shakespeare reference?

Anyway, I just finished the book. Anyone want to figure out what the three intentional mistakes, that he left in the book were? I see there is a Reddit thread on this, with no clear answers. And, the ones I am checking for seem to be corrected in my edition, leading me to think they weren't the intentional ones.
 
Wowbagger said:
I see that, for some reason, the original title was: Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors. I guess Americans are too dumb to get the Shakespeare reference?

Anyway, I just finished the book. Anyone want to figure out what the three intentional mistakes, that he left in the book were? I see there is a Reddit thread on this, with no clear answers. And, the ones I am checking for seem to be corrected in my edition, leading me to think they weren't the intentional ones.
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I had found one. Where he describes the date where the calendar of the Iphone loses it. It's another date. And don't try it! It took me quite some time to reset the calendar so that it fiunctioned again. :blush:
 
erwinl said:
I had found one. Where he describes the date where the calendar of the Iphone loses it. It's another date. And don't try it! It took me quite some time to reset the calendar so that it fiunctioned again. :blush:
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That doesn't sound like an intentional one. I think it's more likely some iPhone models have different calendar failure dates than others.
 
Wowbagger said:
Anyone want to figure out what the three intentional mistakes, that he left in the book were? I see there is a Reddit thread on this, with no clear answers. And, the ones I am checking for seem to be corrected in my edition, leading me to think they weren't the intentional ones.
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Almost certainly one of them is that there are actually only two intentional mistakes.
 
Myriad said:
Almost certainly one of them is that there are actually only two intentional mistakes.
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I thought about that! He might be claiming there are three "intentional" mistakes, where there were actually none intended at all. And then, the first three mistakes people notice, he could claim to be the intentional ones. Anything after that, and he's on his own, I guess.

But, first of all, I'm not the first person to hold that theory. It's been theorized by almost anyone who read the book, pretty much. Anyone could see through that sort of ruse.

And, second of all, it doesn't explain the fact that some early-caught mistakes were corrected in later editions.
 
Wowbagger said:
I thought about that! He might be claiming there are three "intentional" mistakes, where there were actually none intended at all. And then, the first three mistakes people notice, he could claim to be the intentional ones. Anything after that, and he's on his own, I guess.

But, first of all, I'm not the first person to hold that theory. It's been theorized by almost anyone who read the book, pretty much. Anyone could see through that sort of ruse.

And, second of all, it doesn't explain the fact that some early-caught mistakes were corrected in later editions.
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Makes sense, but I was referring to the common puzzle/paradox, usually stated in a form like, "Their are three misteaks in this sentence." The third mistake being that the sentence misrepresents the number of mistakes, because there are actually only two. (But if that's the third mistake, then saying there are three mistakes isn't a mistake, so there are really only two mistakes after all, etc.)

Paradox or not, if the claim that there are three deliberate mistakes in the book is actually stated in the book, as I'm assuming, then that claim itself could be one of the deliberate mistakes. Possibly the only one (in which case, no paradox).
 
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