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RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

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Re: RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

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Post by dogma1138 »

cronix wrote: post #8
dogma1138 wrote: post #5

And that’s how a new collectors note is born.

How collectible is it with 480 million of them out there?

Well if they’ll recall these they can become pretty rare pretty quickly as all notes returned to a bank either voluntarily or via circulation would be destroyed and exchanged with new ones.

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Post by mark-r »

inflatableDodo wrote: post #7
voltagex_ wrote: post #2

"The graphical software package used by [Note Printing Australia] has no copy-paste mechanism and no spelling or grammar check. The text was manually typed in and misspelt at this point," according to a report into the error from the printing agency, dated January 11 this year."

Specialist software for industry can be absurdly shit sometimes. There are seemingly tons of niche software packages used in business that cost thousands per copy and lack even the most rudimentary features normally found in most software.

I don't know about other OS, but in Windows it's absurdly difficult to build an input mechanism that doesn't allow pasting.

Re: RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

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Post by couchand »

dogma1138 wrote: post #11
cronix wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How collectible is it with 480 million of them out there?

Well if they’ll recall these they can become pretty rare pretty quickly as all notes returned to a bank either voluntarily or via circulation would be destroyed and exchanged with new ones.

The article makes it quite clear that the notes are not being recalled.

Re: RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo

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Post by Someone1234 »

caymanjim wrote: post #16

Apparently they also lacked human editors with grade-school educations.

Can you cite something linking education level with an improved ability to spot typographical errors? According to the psychologist quoted in this article[0]/study our inability to spot typos might be an innate limitation of how our brains process information, rather than a lack of intelligence/education.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2014/08/wuwt-typos/

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