Journalists are notoriously bad at math, and the volume of numerical and mathematical errors we see on correction pages is a frequent reminder of this unfortunate fact. Don’t believe us? Well check out this correction in which The Toronto Star is forced to go back to zero:
Any number divided by zero is undefined, not zero as reported last
Sunday in a Starship article about the number zero. Zero divided by zero is
also undefined. The Star regrets the error.