2011-10-28

Why studying maths is important

A strong contender for the biggest arithmetic error of recent times has to be an unknown accountant at Hypo Real Estate who calculated HRE's debt at E216.5bn when it was "only" E161bn. Germany improves its debt-to-GDP ratio by a whole 2.6% (which is the really bad news, if you think about it).

Johann Schmidt, or whatever your name is, we salute you.

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