{"id":25646,"date":"2014-11-03T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=25646"},"modified":"2016-02-27T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:28:10","slug":"oops-can-you-find-the-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=25646","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Can you find the mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wearing<\/a><\/p>\n

Oops! Today I realized I had used the wrong shade in one of the rows of my prime factorization cardigan. I remembered I had discovered that in the process of knitting, and had planned to go over the offending line with duplicate stitch. But I forgot — so now I think I will use it as a puzzle. Can you spot the number that is out of place?<\/p>\n

You’ll definitely need a closer look at the cardigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who will be the first person to spot the error? (You can use the comments to inform me.) This person is almost as geeky as me! \ud83d\ude42 Though at least I can restrain myself from taking apart the cardigan. There was an error in my Prime Factorization Sweater<\/a> — but it was one of five factors of a number (probably 72), so it only involved four stitches in the wrong color. I was able to pick them out, then reinsert the right color with a yarn needle.<\/p>\n

Oh, I should say that the error is not in row 48, which is 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3. I didn’t want to have the pink thread loose over all four blue stitches, so I twisted the yarn after two stitches — and it ended up showing up a bit on the front, though not as much as an actual wrong stitch.<\/p>\n

No, the error is a matter of using the wrong shade in one of the stripes. The result would be far too large a number for this sweater. And now I can use it to find out who is paying attention. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

My posts on Mathematical Knitting and related topics are now gathered at Sonderknitting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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