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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by crocowhile on Sunday October 13, 2019 @07:38AM (#21239861)
Does the swap in the position of the two cities compromise the findings in any way? If not, it's an irrelevant mistake like misspelling a word. What do you expect them to do? retract the paper because they misspelled a word?
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Re:A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than a Hundr... by LargoLasskhyfv on Sunday October 13, 2019 @06:14PM (#21243528)
It could, because in the timeframe the paper is about, they were geographically near, but had no real direct connection to speak of. Traveling over land along branches of the 'old salt routes' took at least two days, and that was fast. They were transport hubs of different branches of the early Hanseatic League.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

This is not the equivalent of a 'spelling error'.

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