Numbers are not my forté
28 February 2007
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
You would not believe how many times I counted up that tally and made 11.
I packed what would fit of my Dulaan items into a big shoe box and filled in the inventory form – the three purple hats could be grouped together, the other items were listed separately. A quick count of the tally. Eleven … What? How is that eleven when two items from what was yesterday a total of eleven items are still on the sofa?
Count again.
Eleven.
Count AGAIN.
Eleven.
Unable to understand how I was doing this, I opened the photo of the knitting in Photoshop and, with a big white brushstroke, marked off each piece that had been packed against the inventory. I counted up the brushtrokes: nine. Right. So why does that tally add up to eleven?
I started counting again and suddenly cottoned on to the problem: Me. It turns out that counting up that tally as 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 is not correct.
4 and 5 like a look-in too.
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