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Red faces after discovery $2.3bn worth of currency has a misprint of the word responsibility in banknote's 'micro-text'
46 million of Australia's new $50 notes have been printed with a typo, the Reserve Bank has confirmed.
The "new and improved" $50 banknote was rolled out in October last year, with a host of new technologies designed to improve accessibility and prevent counterfeiting.
But the yellow note also contains a typo that misspells the word "responsibility".
The note features the Indigenous writer and inventor David Unaipon on one side, and Edith Cowan, Australia's first female member of parliament, on the other – as it has since 1995.
The RBA has printed "micro-text" on the note with excerpts of Unaipon's book, Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines, and Cowan's first speech to parliament.
The small error occurred on Cowan's side, in the text of her speech.
"It is a great responsibilty [sic] to be the only woman here, and I want to emphasise the necessity which exists for other women being here," it says.
Also at Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC and The New York Times.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @10:03PM (1 child)
Yes, yes I am. I'm also familiar with this fact from the article you linked:
Now, I'm not a math major, and my calculator has a day job as a phone, but I believe 46,000,000 is greater than 100 by at least a whole bunch.
And there were only seven of those pennies made of copper. Seven is even less than 100 (which is a whole bunch less than 46,000,000).
Well, that would require me to reproduce. And the chances of that happening are much closer to 46,000,000 - 1 than 100 - 1.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 11 2019, @12:49PM
At the going rate to raise a child is at least a quarter of a million these days how long exactly will it take to pay off if you keep a stack of them in the attic for a few decades?