The Gematria Science/Math/Factual Error Of The Month, May 2017

Like the Insult Of The Month, exactly where and when these jewels appear is left out to make it more difficult for editing and deletion to change the content. It was a close call, and here are the top three:




#3) 22 - The Manchester Bombing


It was pointed out that the perpetrator was 22 years old, killed 22 people on the 22nd day of the month during the 22nd hour. All the 22s were too hard to pass up. Unfortunately for the author(s) there isn't just one, but two factual mistakes here. It was a suicide bomber and he perished in the blast. What you meant was "22 *other* people died." Official death tolls report 23 dead, not 22. Even worse, the time, reported in military style time, was 22:30pm. Sorry tho is not the 22nd hour. It's the 23rd. 1st hour=00:01-1:00. 22nd hour is 21:01-22:00. Oops. Guess the bomber fucked up his timing and blew his wad a year too early.




#2)  Number patterns in Pi


After nearly half a year of seeing Pi misrepresented as 22/7 being "close enough" there is a not so surprising change of course. This was in a friendly comment on the number 47. The commenter pointed out that 4747 appears buried in the nonrepeating digits of Euler's number. Of course it does. It's an infinite sequence. Any four digit sequence can be found in there somewhere. The author of the source mentioned what a good point that was and the need to incorporate the decimal places of Euler's number and Pi into his research. Oh really? So 22/7 isn't close enough when it's convenient for you to access a virtually infinite supply of numbers? 22/7 is a repeating decimal with no 0s, 3s, 6s or 9s in it. Make up your mind you waffler. You sure didn't reply to the commented that he was an idiot for his suggesting to use the infinite sequence.


#1) Body temperature =37 degrees Celsius. Just a short note despite being the winner. Body temperature varies with time of day, level of activity, your environment, etc... While sleeping it's closer to 36.5 degrees, but when getting sciency these guys don't know how to handle rounding and approximations well.