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[[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.
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== [[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 ''[[
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* Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', episode "Camille", forgot to carry the three.
** From "Parallel Universe":
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* ''[[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.
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