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Line 9: [[I Thought It Meant\|Has nothing to do with]] when your [[Chosen One]] refuses to walk. Compare with [[Misplaced a Decimal Point]], the other common arithmetic mistake. {{examples}} == [[Literature]] ==▼ * A spaceship in one of the ''Murderous Maths'' books crashes because the pilot, during a long and complicated trajectory equation, forgets to carry the one.▼ * In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[~~Discworld/Thud\|~~Thud!]]'', the [[Bland-Name Product\|Gooseberry]] organiser-imp tells Vimes that "you don't always carry the tens" when doing the Watch accounts.▼ == [[Live -Action TV]] == * Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', episode "Camille", forgot to carry the three. ** From "Parallel Universe": Line 18 ⟶ 22: Holly: Oops, I've always had a blind spot for 7's. }} * Jayne in the first episode of ''[[Firefly]]'' does this in full sarcasm mode. 'Ten percent of nothin' is ... lemme do the math. Nothin', and nothin', carry the nothin' ... ' * Spoofed in an episode of ''[[~~Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]''. Grant sketched out a complex but valid mathematical formula [[It Makes Sense in Context\|on the side of a test vehicle]]. After Grant finished the calculations and announced the result, this exchange occurred: {{quote\|'''Tory''': You forgot to carry gravity. ''([[Beat]])'' '''Grant''': ''What?!'' }} * ''[[Square One TV]]'''s "Oops!" showed clips of engineering disasters that apparently resulted from mathematical mistakes such as this, [[Divide by Zero]], and [[Misplaced a Decimal Point]]. ▲== [[Literature]] == ▲* A spaceship in one of the ''Murderous Maths'' books crashes because the pilot, during a long and complicated trajectory equation, forgets to carry the one. ▲* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/Thud\|Thud]]'', the Gooseberry organiser-imp tells Vimes that "you don't always carry the tens" when doing the Watch accounts. == [[Music]] == Line 57: == [[Web Original]] == * [[The Nostalgia Critic]] does it in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140512133806/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/nostalgia-critic/34-nostalgia-critic/386-avgn-response-response this] part of the AVGN/NC feud. * Opposite of the "infinity" example above: [http://www.sir-toby.com/extend-a-story/story-1/code/read.php?episode=89464 Carry the zero]. Line 69: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Carry the One~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Stock Phrases]] [[Category:School Tropes]] ▲[[Category:Carry the One]]