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What's the weirdest typo/error you've seen in a book? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
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I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.

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[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I had a Book about Java with a code demonstrating to get prime numbers.

The code just outputted odd numbers.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

hate to tell you this but you may have copied it wrong

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 months ago

tbf it didn't say the output was only prime numbers

[–] HairyHarry@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Nope. I remember the book also showed the output:

1

3

5

7

9 lol

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 months ago

that's amazing