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* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheUndead'', Tom Servo misses a single question on the tests given to the cast by the Brain Guys (which everyone else but Gypsy fails horrendously) for this reason.
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* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheUndead'', Tom Servo misses a single question on the tests given to the cast by the Brain Guys (which everyone else but Gypsy fails horrendously) horrendously but Gypsy, and it's suggested via OverlyNarrowSuperlative that she'd have failed if they'd been able to decide on a control set) for this reason.
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** It took .04 minutes to make the observation?
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* In the early days of ''CityOfHeroes'', the smoke bomb in the /devices powerset reduced foes' perception to zero, allowing /devices blasters to kill foes with impunity. This turned out to be due to a misplaced decimal in the magnitude of the debuff, and was subsequently corrected.
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** Another episode featuring another hologram named [[DrillSergeantNasty Queeg]] insults Holly's IQ in this manner.
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** Another episode featuring another hologram named [[DrillSergeantNasty Queeg]] insults Holly's Holy's IQ in this manner.
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** Another episode featuring another hologram named [[DrillSergeantNasty Queeg]] insults Holly's IQ in this manner.
---> '''Queeg''': It has a six in it, but it's not six thousand.
---> '''Lister''': Well what is it?
---> '''Queeg''': [[DeadpanSnarker Six.]]
---> '''Queeg''': It has a six in it, but it's not six thousand.
---> '''Lister''': Well what is it?
---> '''Queeg''': [[DeadpanSnarker Six.]]
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: [[SwirlyEnergyThingy White Hole]]'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?"
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: [[SwirlyEnergyThingy White Hole]]'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?"
point?" She then discovers that she has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the decimal point changed a 5 to a 1 is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: WhiteHole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?"
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: WhiteHole'', [[SwirlyEnergyThingy White Hole]]'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?"
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It\'s a countdown. Holly lost .04 of a minute, about 2 seconds.
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: WhiteHole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''RedDwarf: WhiteHole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''Red Dwarf'': ''White Hole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''Red Dwarf'': ''White Hole'', ''RedDwarf: WhiteHole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''Red Dwarf: White Hole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''Red Dwarf: White Dwarf'': ''White Hole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Played with in ''Red Dwarf: White Hole'', Holy's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12000) in exchange for [[ExplosiveOverclocking exponentially reducing her lifespan]]. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" It turns out she only has 3.41 minutes left to live. How the five got changed to a one is anyone's guess.
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* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect if he says his calculations are correct]], he's wrong.
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* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect if he says his calculations are correct]], [[TemptingFate he's wrong.wrong]].
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* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, if he says his calculations are correct, he's wrong.
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* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, [[IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect if he says his calculations are correct, correct]], he's wrong.
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The misconception is that there is a misconception, and Popeye thrives on beta-carotene, not iron.
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* In ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheUndead'', Tom Servo misses a single question on the tests given to the cast by the Brain Guys (which everyone else but Gypsy fails horrendously) for this reason.
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* There's an anecdote floating around that spinach is so beloved because once upon a time, someone misplaced a decimal point and it was thought to be ten times as nutritious as it actually was. Hence ''{{Popeye}}''.
** Specifically, ten times as much iron. It's still marketed on this misconception.
** Specifically, ten times as much iron. It's still marketed on this misconception.
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* There's an anecdote floating around urban legend that spinach is so beloved said to have a high iron content because once upon a time, someone misplaced a the decimal point point, and it was thought to be ten times as nutritious as it actually was. Hence ''{{Popeye}}''.
** Specifically, ten times as much iron. It's still marketedthe figures on this misconception.modern nutrition labels are because [[IdiotPlot every single person in every nutritional agency in the world since is just making computations based on that figure, not doing tests of any kind]]. This is, of course, [[http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf false]].
** Specifically, ten times as much iron. It's still marketed
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** Not quite a decimal point ''per se'', as decimals hadn't been invented then, but a confusion about the meaning of a particular hieroglyphic, confusing 100 for 1,000. Same basic concept, though.
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* A Calorie is 1000 times as much energy as a calorie. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie That is, the "Calorie" seen in American nutrition charts is actually a kilocalorie.]] This has to rank among the stupidest units of measurement (i.e naming conventions) that exist. It seems deliberately designed to confuse and lead to errors.
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* A Calorie is 1000 times as much energy as a calorie. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie That is, the "Calorie" seen in American nutrition charts is actually a kilocalorie.]] This has to rank among the stupidest units of measurement (i.e naming conventions) that exist. It seems deliberately designed to confuse and lead to errors.errors.
** IsaacAsimov also mocked this concept in one of his scientific essays, and proceeded to use kilocalories (abbreviated kcal) for the remainder of his calculations.
** IsaacAsimov also mocked this concept in one of his scientific essays, and proceeded to use kilocalories (abbreviated kcal) for the remainder of his calculations.
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** Another experimental error during that same story produces a dragon approximately 0.01 times the size of a normal dragon. It's ten inches long...and promptly flies between the bars of the cage it had been summoned into. Oh, and it breathes fire.
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** Another experimental error during that same story A later attempt to perfect the spell produces a dragon approximately 0.01 times the size of a normal dragon. It's ten inches long...long, breathes fire, has a sting in its tail...and was summoned into a cage made for the normal-sized dragon the characters were hoping to get. It promptly flies between escapes by flying '''between''' the bars of the cage it had been summoned into. Oh, bars...and it breathes fire.it's not happy.
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** Another experimental error during that same story produces a dragon approximately 0.01 times the size of a normal dragon. It's ten inches long...and promptly flies between the bars of the cage it had been summoned into. Oh, and it breathes fire.
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Trope understanding fail. It is no way means \"this troper doesn\'t know\" or \"rumour has it\"
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* [[OrSoIHeard Supposedly]], the myth of Atlantis got started because {{Plato}} misplaced a decimal point in his memoirs--if he had recorded the east-west distance as exactly one-tenth of what he described, it would point directly to Crete.
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* [[OrSoIHeard Supposedly]], Supposedly, the myth of Atlantis got started because {{Plato}} misplaced a decimal point in his memoirs--if he had recorded the east-west distance as exactly one-tenth of what he described, it would point directly to Crete.
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**Specifically, ten times as much iron. It's still marketed on this misconception.
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* In {{Discworld}}, the Bursar of Unseen University is said to regard the decimal point as a nuisance. Inevitably, this leads to Ponder Stibbons taking over his job.
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* In {{Discworld}}, ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'' , the Bursar of Unseen University is said to regard the decimal point as a nuisance. Inevitably, this leads to Ponder Stibbons taking over his job.responsibilities. Although being utterly mad may have more to do with it (not that that stopped him before) as he had previously been shown to be very mathematically adept.
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* A calorie is 1000 times as much energy as a calorie. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie That is, the "calorie" seen in American nutrition charts is actually a kilocalorie.]] This has to rank among the stupidest units of measurement (i.e naming conventions) that exist. It seems deliberately designed to confuse and lead to errors.
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* A calorie Calorie is 1000 times as much energy as a calorie. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie That is, the "calorie" "Calorie" seen in American nutrition charts is actually a kilocalorie.]] This has to rank among the stupidest units of measurement (i.e naming conventions) that exist. It seems deliberately designed to confuse and lead to errors.
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* Plato's ten-fold error, mentioned below in RealLife, shows up as a plot point in IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis
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* Plato's ten-fold error, mentioned below in RealLife, shows up as a plot point in IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis
IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis, both in regards to the distances Plato gave, [[spoiler: as well as the number of [[AppliedPhlebotinum Orichalcum beads]] required to make the Atlantean [[UpgradeArtifact ascension device]] work properly.]]
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* In one story by IsaacAsimov, an alien scientist mentions an occasion when one of his students thought he'd disproved a longstanding theorem. It turned out he'd misplaced a decimal point ''in an exponent'', meaning his result was 10000000000 times too large.
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* Plato's ten-fold error, mentioned below in RealLife, shows up as a plot point in IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis
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* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, if he says his calculations are correct, he's wrong.
* Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in ''SlyCooper'' because of this or CarryTheOne. As a rule, if he says his calculations are correct, he's wrong.
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* Invoked in all versions of TheProducers. When begging Leo to not report his small scale embezzlement at the beginning, Max tells him he should just misplace a few decimals.
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* In one of the ''IncompleteEnchanter'' stories by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, where magic has a mathematical basis, one of the characters has to prove his magical skills by invoking a dragon. The guy accidentally shifts the decimal point two places to the right and summons 100 dragons. Luckily they're vegetarian.
* In {{Discworld}}, the Bursar of UnseenUniversity is said to regard the decimal point as a nuisance. Inevitably, this leads to Ponder Stibbons taking over his job.
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* In one of the ''IncompleteEnchanter'' ''Incomplete Enchanter'' stories by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, where magic has a mathematical basis, one of the characters has to prove his magical skills by invoking a dragon. The guy accidentally shifts the decimal point two places to the right and summons 100 dragons. Luckily they're vegetarian.
* In {{Discworld}}, the Bursar ofUnseenUniversity Unseen University is said to regard the decimal point as a nuisance. Inevitably, this leads to Ponder Stibbons taking over his job.
* In ''The Purchase of the North Pole'' by JulesVerne, the antagonists' plan is doomed to fail from the very beginning, because, as it is revealed in the end, the mathematician responsible for it was interrupted while writing down Earth's perimeter, which caused him to effectively move the decimal point three places to the left.
* In {{Discworld}}, the Bursar of
* In ''The Purchase of the North Pole'' by JulesVerne, the antagonists' plan is doomed to fail from the very beginning, because, as it is revealed in the end, the mathematician responsible for it was interrupted while writing down Earth's perimeter, which caused him to effectively move the decimal point three places to the left.
