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Perhaps that's why they're U.S. Supreme Court Justices rather than mathematicians

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Perhaps that's why they're U.S. Supreme Court Justices rather than mathematicians: A reader who is currently based at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan emails to point out that yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jimenez v. Quarterman, No. 07-6984, contains a rather obvious math error that's repeated three times (once in the unanimous majority opinion, at page 4, and twice in first paragraph of the syllabus).

My correspondent emails:

In the opening syllabus paragraph of Jimenez vs. Quarterman, the line,

"Petitioner filed a second state habeas application on December 6, 2004, which was denied 355 days later, on June 29, 2005."

Whoops. In the military we frequently use "Julian Dates" which are quite helpful in counting spans of days.

December 6 in 2004 (a leap year) was 341 out of 366, and June 29, 2005 was 180.

So the actual span of days was 180 + (366-341) = "205 days later." So, it seems unlikely to be a mere typo.

"355 days later" would have been November 26, 2005.

Thanks much to my Bagram-based reader for sending this along.

Full post as published by How Appealing on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).

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