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2. Correction (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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   The corrections affected 10 articles that had been published from 2000 to 2003, with the errors reported to the newspaper after the scandal broke. [4] One 2007 study suggested that "fewer than 2 percent of factually flawed articles" in daily newspapers are actually followed by a correction. [5]

3. How to Correct a Mistake on a Check: Step-by-Step - AOL

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   Write the correction above the crossed-out mistake. Make sure to keep the writing small, easy to read and neat, so as to not write over other parts of the check or make it hard to see.

4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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   This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text.

5. Erratum - Wikipedia

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   Design errors and mistakes in a microprocessor's hardwired logic may also be documented and described as errata. One well-publicized example is Intel's "FDIV" erratum in early Pentium processors, [7] known as the Pentium FDIV bug. This gave incorrect answers to a floating-point division instruction (FDIV) for a small set of numbers, due to an ...

6. X mark - Wikipedia

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   An X mark marking the spot of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod. An X mark (also known as an ex mark or a cross mark or simply an X or ex or a cross) is used to indicate the concept of negation (for example "no, this has not been verified", "no, that is not the correct answer" or "no, I do not agree") as well as an indicator (for example, in election ballot papers or in maps as an x-marks ...

7. Muphry's law - Wikipedia

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   Stephen J. Dubner described learning of the existence of Muphry's law in the "Freakonomics" section of The New York Times in July 2008. He had accused The Economist of a typo in referring to Cornish pasties being on sale in Mexico, assuming that "pastries" had been intended and being familiar only with the word "pasties" with the meaning of nipple coverings.

8. Wikipedia : Contact us/Readers

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   Just hit the "edit" button on the top right of the page, make the correction, and hit "Publish changes". If you want to learn more about editing, try our help pages . If you can't or don't want to fix an error, your best approach is to leave a note at the talk page of the article explaining the problem.

9. Correction paper - Wikipedia

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   A sheet of correction paper in a typewriter. Tipp-ex correction paper 20130417. Correction paper, or correction film, its plastic based equivalent, is a tab of plastic with one side coated with white correction material. It is used to correct typing errors made when using a typewriter.