Probably, our public mistakes are a little like male baldness.
Important to the one who made it (has it), but not even worth noticing to
anyone else.
In science, mistakes play a special role. "We learn from our
mistakes." This is loosely quoted from Popper *Conjectures and
Refutations* or Lakatos, Imre, *Proofs and Refutations*, Cambridge
University Press, New York (1976). You can read it in a couple of hours
of pure pleasure.
Regards / Tom "What's a capacitor?" Wayburn
P.S. I remember what they are, but I have forgotten everything else I
ever knew about them.
P.P.S. Oh, I remember something else: The entire earth is only a few
farads, isn't it?