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* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]:
** A particularly [[egregious]] example. When the first train is riding on the John Galt Line, we are given the following bits of information, in three ''successive'' sentences:
**# The train passes a signal light 'every few seconds';
**# The distance between each signal light and the next is two miles;
**# The train is doing a hundred miles an hour.
** Now, if the train is really travelling at a hundred miles an hour, it will take (3600/(100/2)) = ''72'' seconds to cover a distance of two miles, i.e. well over a minute. Then again, perhaps Ayn Rand had a different concept of 'a few seconds' than most people.
* [[Ye Goode Olde Days]]: The Looters look at the collapse of industrial civilization with a degree of satisfaction as a return to these; Dagny is present as they comment on the stability of newformed Indian feudalism, and is horrified when none care about how many are suffering and dying for lack of modern necessities <s>luxuries</s> such as ''drinkable water.''
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