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Known misprints in edition 24.24 (June 2011, volumes 1 and 5) and 25.01 (October 2011, volumes 2, 3, 4 and 6)

 

• Vol. 1, p. 18, "When you fill a bucket with a small amount of water, it does not hang vertically." possibly change to "When you fill a bucket, assuming zero friction in the handle joints, with a small amount of water, it does not hang vertically." for clarity? I assumed friction was the cause in answering the challenge before thinking of the possibility of center of gravity and the way the water would be distributed in the bucket... (CS: well, these are the pitfalls that everybody must overcome ...)
• Vol. 1, p. 227, footnote Emmy Noether: Correct "Bryn Mayr" to "Bryn Mawr" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 254. line 4: Correct "many otherwise ship sinkings" to "many otherwise unexplained ship sinkings" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 261: The link seems to be broken: www.amath.washington.edu/~bernard/kp/waterwaves.html (CS: it works for me!)
• Vol. 1, p. 271, footnote: The link seems to be broken: perseus.uchicago.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0131 (CS: must be http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Lucr.+1.1 )
• Vol. 1, p. 277, close to challenge 497e: Correct "You bathtub" to "YouR bathtub" (CS: thank you!)

• Vol. 1, p. 197: Challenge 389 is labelled as "ny" but is answered in Challenge 390s
• Vol. 1, p. 287, last line: The link seems to be closed.
• Vol. 1, p. 399: reorder challenges 526, 527

• Vol. 1, p. 298, line 17: Correct "are are" to "are all" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 310: The first link (www.tn.tudelft.nl/cdd) seems to be broken (CS: this is the new one: www.de-monstrare.nl)
• Vol. 1, p. 320, table 47: change "ribble" to "ripple" (3x) (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 321, end of 2nd paragraph: change "returning dust" to "returning TO dust" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 326: The translation of the Nietzsche motto is missing (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 329, two links to youtube: correct "org" to "com" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 334, line 10 from bottom: remove second "is" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 335, line 20: change "... to fin out" to "... to finD out" (CS: thank you!)
• Vol. 1, p. 335, Challenge 636e: The night would not be dark only if matter density is above a certain minimum value throughout the whole universe and if no black matter existed. Should I elaborate on this in a solution to the challenge? (CS: no, I will do it; I will add Olbers' paradox)
• Vol. 1, p. 357, the link www.wgs84.com seems to be broken (timeout) (CS: yes, I have to add a NASA link instead.)

• Vol. 2, p. 278+279, the "Limits to Precision" section is copied on both those pages. (CS: thank you !)

• Vol. 5. p. 61, last par: ... less possible … (not "less impossible") (CS: thank you)
• Vol. 5, p. 67, par 1: …; in *the* future, they might even … (CS: thank you)