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We gave an unlikely figure of 14m tonnes of snack food consumed during transmission of the Superbowl, which would be almost half a tonne for every American (What we’ve learned, page 28, February 1). We meant 14m kilograms.

-Guardian (UK)
There was a decimal slip in our Super Bowl snack food correction yesterday. The mistaken figure of 14 m tonnes would be almost 0.05 tonnes of food for each American and not almost half a tonne. -Guardian (UK)

Excerpted from page 131 of ‘Regret the Error’ by Craig Silverman