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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Author’s Note
Contents
Zero: Introduction
One: Losing Track of Time
When 4.3 Billion Milliseconds Is Just Not Enough
Calendars
The Audacity of Pope
The Day Time Will Stand Still
When You Really F-22 It Up
Two: Engineering Mistakes
Bridges over Troubled Math
Resonators Gonna Resonate
Shakes on a Plane
Ups and Downs
In a Twist
Walking on Uncertain Ground
Three: Little Data
When Good Data Turns Bad
Gene and Gone
The End of the Spreadsheet
When the Spreadsheet Hits the Fan
Four: Out of Shape
Tri-Hard
Moon Unit
Doors of Death
More than Just O-Rings
For the Love of Cog
Five: You Can’t Count on It
Combo Breaker!
Is Your Perm Big Enough?
Six: Does Not Compute
Deadly Code
Things Computers Do Not Excel At
The Dangers of Truncation
Nothing to Worry About
Seven: Probably Wrong
A Serious Statistical Error
Flipping Difficult
You’ve Got to Be in It to Not Win It
A Load of Balls
Probably in Conclusion
Eight: Put Your Money Where Your Mistakes Are
Computerized Money Mistakes
The Fly in the Algorithm
And They Would Have Gotten Away with It Too, If It Weren’t for the Meddling Laws of Physics
Math Misunderstandings
Nine: A Roundabout Way
Fixing the Glitch
Racing Mistakes
The Significance of Figures
Lumped Together
9.49: Too Small to Notice
If the Bolt Fits
Ten: Units, Conventions, and Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
If You Can’t Handle the Heat, Get Out of the Conversion
Massive Problems
Don’t Forget about the Price Tag
Against the Grain
Eleven: Stats the Way I Like It
If the Data Fits
Some Averages Are More Equal Than Others
This Should Bias Some Time
Causation, Correlation, and Cell-Phone Towers
Twelve: Tltloay Rodanm
Robotic Randomness
Random by Rote
Random Numbers Fall Mainly in the Planes
Randomly Wrong
Like, So Totally Random
Let’s Get Physical
Thirteen: Does not Compute
Invaders of Space
The Five-Hundred-Mile E-Mail
Human Interactions
So, What Have We Learned From Our Mistakes?
Acknowledgments
List Of Illustrations
Index
About the Author
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