• wicked@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Nah, I messed up looking at the answer, not with the math.

    You messed up the math, so how is this admitting your mistake?

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      3 days ago

      No, I didn’t. The math was fine, it was me not counting the places in the answer correctly that was the problem.

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          3 days ago

          No, it’s not. The numbers used to derive the answer were correct. I did not forget to multiply by the K. I read the answer wrong when I transferred it.

          My math was correct, my reading wasn’t.

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            2 days ago

            Cost to give every household rooftop solar: 133m × $22.5k = $3b

            Should be “133m × $22.5k = $3000b”… or 3 trillion. You don’t think the right side of the equation is part of the math?

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                2 days ago

                If you think I have made an error, feel free to point it out. I prefer being corrected than being wrong.

                I’ve never understood why people are so reluctant to admit mistakes. Insecurity? I have no problem with it.

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                  2 days ago

                  The person I initially responded to said that the reason I was off by a factor of 1000 was because I forgot to multiply by the K in the price.

                  I said the actual reason I was off by 1000 was because when I glanced at the calculator I read the result wrong. The math was right, my reading comprehension wasn’t.

                  I was never arguing that the answer I put in the comment wasn’t wrong. I even edited it.

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                    2 days ago

                    Bruh, you did the math wrong. Knowing the difference between a billion and a trillion is basic math. That you got wrong.