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Not me, but a co-worker at an internship I held:

Said person entered the number of metric tons of concrete 3 magnitudes higher than it should have been. Imagine the cost difference between 1.0 * 10^6 and 1.0 * 10^9 metric tons... Our boss was not pleased, to say the least.

But imagine how easy it is to enter a few extra zeros in an excel data cell. Yikes!




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