Addenda/Errata

For errata, additional notes, and improvements for some of my articles, see pdf, and for some of my books, see pdf

For a list of errata for my course notes, see hmtl
Thou shalt commit adultery.
            Exodus 20:14, King James Bible, 1631 edition.
The article Wanna be a pop star?, yesterday, does make sense if the columns are read in the following order: 1,4,2,3,5,6,7.
            "Corrections and clarifications" from the Guardian, February 21, 2001.
We quoted [the Bishop] as referring to "the ear of the Lord's favour". It should have read "the year of the Lord's favour" (Isaiah 61:2)
            "Corrections and clarifications" from the Guardian Weekly, November 13--19, 2003.
3:00-4:30pm Number Theory---Prof. Ben Green---(UBC)---Finite field models in addictive number theory---4096 EH
           UM Seminars for March 15--19, 2004.
The Indian security forces seized a huge supply of arms and ammunition en route to Nepal on Thursday during a security check of a passenger bus on the Nepal-India border. The bus contained seven cartoons of rifles....
            nepalnews.com, June 19, 2004.
At a speech to high school students in Orlando, Gov. Jeb Bush was stumped on a math question from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, which he has championed. A student, Luana Marques, 18, posed the question: ''What are the angles on a three-four-five-triangle?'' The governor gave a steely grin. ''The angles would be -- if I was going to guess,'' he said. ''Three-four-five, Three-four-five. I don't know, 125, 90 and whatever remains on 180?'' Ms. Marques had the correct answer: 30, 60 and 90. ''
           New York Times July 7, 2004.
A report ... on Wednesday ... misstated the answer. The angles on a 3-4-5 triangle are 90 degrees, 53.1 degrees and 36.9 degrees -- not, as the student said, 30, 60 and 90.
           New York Times, July 9, 2004.