Websites cannot do arithmetic

Dec 6, 2008 at 4:50 PM
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See if you can work this out. I had 204 photos on Flickr, and the site gave me the 200-limit warning from October 2007. I hadn’t used it since. Today, I decided to delete four photographs to bring it under 200, but no matter how many I deleted, the warning remained. The folders I have there state:

Flickr totals

No matter what I do, these are the totals.
I kept on deleting and eventually Flickr admitted I got under 200. I deleted far more than four to get there:

Flickr 199 warning

But if I go to the folders’ totals, guess what? They still report 170 and 34.
Hence, on Flickr, 204 – 10 (maybe several fewer) = 199 and 170 + 34 = 199. But like the one on Image.net I posted here a couple of weeks ago:

Image net bad maths

On Image.net, 42 > 500.
Somehow, knowledge of basic arithmetic is not important in computer programming. Or this is all that new maths nonsense.

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However, just upgrade to OVI or another site.

Will the sites still not feed the same wrong arithmetic, even through OVI? Sorry if I seem ignorant—just wanted to be sure what you meant.

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