atw: Mistakes that stop you in your tracks

Here's a sentence that really stopped me in my tracks when I was editing 
yesterday: 'The dialog box has three buttons, labelled Save and Cancel'. 

It turned out that there used to be a third (Delete) button. That was then 
itself deleted and the author then removed the reference to Delete, but 
forgot to change the 'three'. Seems obvious enough when it's explained, 
but it had me puzzled for a while.

Reminds me of a piece of wisdom passed on to me by a professional 
mathematician, in the days when I was one too. Mathematicians can be 
divided into three types: those that can count and those that can't. 

Howard

Howard Silcock 
Technical Writer
ADI Limited
Electronic Systems
1 Phipps Close, Deakin, ACT 2600
Ph. +61 2 6234 6075
Fax +61 2 6234 6011
Email: howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Web page: www.adi-limited.com.au 


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