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Misplaced a Decimal Point
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Whenever math gets involved with the story things can get complicated, the resident mathematician will crunch the numbers and assert their solution is foolproof. Inevitably, the claim comes crashing down, sometimes literally, and the mathematician will make a gesture of embarrassment and say, "I must have misplaced a decimal point." This comes as an analysis of complex systems and the inherent flaws of trying to develop an equation for anything and everything in the real world. It could also just be a humanizing flaw, where the math should have been perfect but they didn't account for all variables due to ego, naivete or arrogance. It can also be done deliberately, see also Hollywood Accounting. In real life actual decimal mistakes are unlikely, since among mathematicians and scientists decimal notation is usually not the easiest way to write something. More common are radicals, fractions proper and improper, constants (such as pi or the natural base), and scientific notation.note Though technically, using the wrong exponent here is equivalent to misplacing the decimal point, sometimes over many orders of magnitude. It does, however, happen at times—not very often (as traditionally one keeps track of things in terms of integer multiples of the lowest common currency, such as integers of cents instead of decimals of dollars)—in finance. It was an occupational hazard for engineers and scientists in the days of slide rules — see the Real Life section for details. The most likely cause of the prevalence of this near iconic catchphrase for a mathematics error is a combination of Writers Cannot Do Math and Everybody Hates Mathematics. Misplacing decimal points is a characteristic of elementary school and middle school arithmetic. Thus, this will most commonly show up in works aimed at children, for the reasons that it doesn't take much for a kid to consider a term as advanced mathematics and that the writers themselves, being kids at heart, are the writers least likely to have taken advanced mathematics. Subtrope of E = MC Hammer. Compare with Carry the One, the other arithmetic mistake common in fiction. See also Mismeasurement. 20% More Awesome is when this gets applied to more abstract ideas. |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: Urumi says this to her math tutor when he thinks he's solved a ridiculously complex equation she posed to him. She says if he solves it within five minutes, she'll give him her panties. | |
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In Melonpool, technical guy Ralphie says he "must've missed a decimal point somewhere" during one of the time-travel paradox plots. It makes some sense in the context. | |
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The given cause of the plan's failure in Office Space was that Michael misplaced a decimal point, which results in far too much money being siphoned off. He claims that he always makes similar minor mistakes. More justified than most examples due to the simple fact that Michael wasn't doing math, he was writing a computer program that involved math. It's much easier to make a mistake like this under such conditions. |
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The Big Bang Theory: In the episode "The Romance Resonance", Sheldon theorizes a new element, only to discover that he has made a horrible mistake. | |
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Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith has a bug where Marisa Kirisame's lasers are ten times as powerful as they are supposed to be. | |
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Discussed in The Answer of Persona 3. When speculating about why the researchers were wrong in predicting that the destruction of Tartarus would also cause the Abyss of Time to cease to be, and that said Abyss would have no Shadows, Junpei makes the following retort: | |
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Red Dwarf: The episode "Queeg" features a hologram named Queeg (actually Holly pulling a prank on the crew) who insults Holly's IQ in this manner. Played with in the episode "White Hole". Holly's IQ has been significantly increased (to 12,000) in exchange for exponentially reducing her lifespan. When looking at her new lifespan, the screen displays 345 before she realizes "The decimal point, where's the decimal point?" She then discovers that she has 3.41 minutes left to live. |
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In Unseen Academicals , the Bursar of Unseen University is said to regard the decimal point as a nuisance. Inevitably, this leads to Ponder Stibbons taking over his responsibilities. Although being utterly mad may have more to do with it (not that that stopped him before) as he had previously been shown to be very mathematically adept. As of The Science of Discworld, the Bursar is now too mathematically adept to bother with decimal points, or real numbers. "Of course, he was a natural mathematician, and one thing a natural mathematician wants is to get away from actual damn sums as quickly as possible and slide into those bright sunny uplands where everything is explained by letters in a foreign alphabet". It might be noted that the bursar of a university is in charge of the finances. Not exactly a position for someone who can't be bothered with decimal points (or someone who is barking mad, if it comes to that). |
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Kelly's Heroes uses this as a throwaway gag when Crapgame calculates the value of the Nazi Gold that Kelly is trying to steal. He initially comes up with $1.6 million, but two scenes later announces that he misplaced a decimal and it's actually $16 million. | |
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At the end of Superman: Red Son Luthor's plan to destroy Superman and Take Over the World seems to have succeeded without a hitch... only for it to be revealed that Superman is still alive due to Luthor having misplaced a decimal point when he calculated Supes' density. However, due to Luthor having made Superman see the error of his ways as well as the world being a better place under Luthor's rule, he decides to let Luthor think he won and live the rest of his days in anonymity. | |
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In the Lucky Luke episode Outlaw, the Daltons (the original ones, not the cousins from the later stories) try to divide their loot among themselves. Having had no actual schooling, they fail horribly, turning a simple long division into a mathematical nightmare. Bob Dalton uses his gun to place a decimal point "to simplify things". | |
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Bentley sometimes steers you directly into security in Sly Cooper because of this or Carry the One. As a rule, if he says his calculations are correct, he's wrong. | |
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In The Flintstones, local scientist Dr. Carl Sargon (uh, No Celebrities Were Harmed, thank you) calculates the trajectory of an asteroid with an abacus, concluding that it will collide with Earth in just a few days, destroying everything and killing everyone. The calculations were wrong because a couple of moths had been breeding in the abacus, and Sargon took them for a bead. | |
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In the NCIS episode "Trapped", Nick Torres accidentially makes a 5,000 dollar donation to a charity instead of the 50 dollar donation he meant to make. At the episode's end, when he meets up with the person in charge of the charity to fix the mistake, he sees how much the accessible playground built by the charity means to disabled children and tells said person that there wasn't a mistake. | |
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In The Sack, Senator Horrigan does this twice, first when he multiplies 100,000 by 120, then when he multiplies 100,000 by 180. He gets 120 and 180 million, respectively. | |
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In Leftover Soup, Max's older brother Mark died because he misplaced a decimal point during training and caused an accident. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Undead", Tom Servo misses a single question on the tests given to the cast by the Brain Guys (which everyone else fails horrendously but Gypsy, and it's suggested via Overly Narrow Superlative that she'd have failed if they'd been able to decide on a control set) for this reason. | |
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Invoked in all versions of The Producers. When begging Leo to not report his small scale embezzlement at the beginning, Max tells him he should just misplace a few decimals. | |
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In Questionable Content, Dora panics briefly because of one of these. Hannelore comforts her with that her Corrupt Corporate Executive mother made the same mistake, causing the Argentinian economy to collapse. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Check", Louis gives the kids a check for $5000. Just as they are about to cash it at the end of the episode, Louis arrives and announces that he forgot to add the decimal point, making the check $50 instead. | |
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The Partridge Family: In "Forgive Us Our Debits," Shirley buys a $29 cuckoo clock and receives a bill for $290 thanks to a computer glitch. When she goes back to the store to get it fixed, repo men show up at the house threatening to take her furniture if she doesn't pay the $2900 she owes. | |
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In one of the Harold Shea stories by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt, where magic has a mathematical basis, one of the characters has to prove his magical skills by invoking a dragon. The guy accidentally shifts the decimal point two places to the right and summons 100 dragons. Luckily they're vegetarian. A later attempt to perfect the spell produces a dragon approximately 0.01 times the size of a normal dragon. It's ten inches long, breathes fire, has a sting in its tail...and was summoned into a cage made for the normal-sized dragon the characters were hoping to get. It promptly escapes by flying between the bars...and it's not happy. It is, however, adorable. |
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In the Doctor Who episode "The Pyramid at the End of the World", a misplaced decimal point during a biochemical experiment results in a highly voracious bacteria that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth within a year, if it gets out into the atmosphere. Why was it misplaced? Because one of the scientists accidentally broke her reading glasses, and her colleague had a bad hangover. | |
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The Wire: When Major Colvin is at COMSTAT presenting his official report that illustrates a 14% drop in felonies in the Western District as a result of his Hamsterdam project, Bill Rawls is skeptical of Colvin's numbers and says he's going to have them looked over to make sure Colvin didn't leave out a decimal point between the 1 and the 4. | |
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In Ed, Edd n Eddy, Edd seems to have made this error on a few occasions. | |
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The Ultimates: Banner considered that Captain America would barely have enough strength to talk. He awakes in full force and proceeds to trash the floor with everyone. Banner admits that must have misplaced a decimal point somewhere. | |
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As of The Science of Discworld, the Bursar is now too mathematically adept to bother with decimal points, or real numbers. "Of course, he was a natural mathematician, and one thing a natural mathematician wants is to get away from actual damn sums as quickly as possible and slide into those bright sunny uplands where everything is explained by letters in a foreign alphabet". | |
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In Sing, the prize for the talent show was intended to be $1000 (composed mostly of various junk stuffed in a chest), but due to some antics with a Glass Eye, the secretary in charge of writing the ads ends up typing $100000, which attracts far more performers than usual and causes various other problems. | |
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In Fantastic Four comics, Victor Von Doom misplaced a decimal when planning a clandestine scientific experiment. When his roomate Reed Richards tried to point it out to him, Doom went into a rage at the suggestion that he could have made a mistake and went ahead anyway. The experiment literally blew up in his face, scarring and forever embittering him against Richards, convinced that he must have changed the calculations in an attempt to sabotage him. | |
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In The Muppet Movie, Kermit tries to buy a car at a rather disreputable dealership, but can't afford any of them, until Sweetums swats a fly, which creates a decimal point in a price tag; the dealer finds himself selling a $1195 car for $11.95, after paying a $12 trade-in on the Muppets' old lemon. | |
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At the end of the telethon in The Muppets (2011), the titular characters have raised $9,999,999 - one dollar short of the $10 million they need to save their theater. As Richman gloats, Fozzie bangs his head against the money counter in despair. The display flickers, rolls, and resets... revealing that the decimal point wasn't displaying correctly, and that they actually raised only $99,999.99. | |
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In the early days of City of Heroes, the smoke bomb in the /devices powerset reduced foes' perception to zero, allowing /devices blasters to kill foes with impunity. This turned out to be due to a misplaced decimal in the magnitude of the debuff (50% instead of 5%), and was subsequently corrected. | |
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In the WKRP in Cincinnati episode "The Contest Nobody Could Win", Johnny Fever misreads the prize for a radio contest as $5,000 instead of $50. | |
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