Image by Getty Images via @daylifeRead related » The $100bn blunder: Fed forced to 'quarantine' one billion $100 bills after printing error makes them worthlessI'm not sure what that reporter's credentials are, but I'll bet dollars to donuts that a billion Federal Reserve notes doesn't come close to representing "ten percent of the U.S. currently on the entire planet", if those giant vaults are located within the confines of Fort Worth and Washington, DC. After all, Fort Worth is but a small part of Texas, and the state itself is less than ten percent of the U.S. currently on the "entire" planet. By the way, is it really necessary to use the word "entire" in this context?
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“A printing problem with the new high-tech $100 bills has forced government printers to shut down production - and to quarantine more than one billion of the notes. The flawed notes represent more than ten per cent of the U.S. currently [sic] on the entire planet. They are being stored in giant vaults at Fort Worth in Texas and in Washington, DC, as the Federal Reserve desperately tries to resolve the problem.”
— By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, 7th December 2010 (dailymail.co.uk)
OK, OK, I grant you that the reporter meant to write "currency" not "currently". But my point is that the print media (including electronic print), not to mention writing of any sort, suffers from sloppy inattention to detail on much more than ten percent of the planet. Judging by my own daily experience perusing text from online sources the world over (which includes the "entire" planet), there is a deplorable dearth of editing, especially self-editing, on our stinking planet. Oops, I meant to write "shrinking" not "stinking". Or did I?
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yup em agree with you in regard this problem and I also did not get the logic to use the word entire.
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