Bad Math Day

I've always been fond of the quote "the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." It's sort of like "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who do not," but without the geeky overtones.

But The Register today has a news story that really drives home someone having a bad math day: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/08/scratchcard_anarchy/

My favorite quote from the story:

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher, not lower, than -8, but I'm not having it."

Right...