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<p>[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1557507, member: 11668"]Some, but that's going to be true (to some extent) of any reference you use. S&L has some glitches, but it's not bad overall; it's gone through enough editions that most of the errors have gotten fixed, at least in the heavily-used sections like the $1 FRNs. Certain specific areas aren't covered well (uncut sheets, I'm looking at you) but that's not so much an error as a conscious choice about what to cover and what to leave out.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Azpiazu book is much worse in terms of typos...but that's because it's still in its first edition; given time it'll surely get better. And there's no other book available where you can get equivalent detail--if you want the full breakdown of scarce blocks and scarce star runs, it's the only book you can check.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Not to toot my own horn here, but one advantage of my website is that I can fix errors almost immediately after someone tells me about them. Still, even after a dozen years of fixing, there are enough errors left that people keep finding them at a pretty good rate. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> With that experience, I hesitate to go criticizing others on that score....)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numbers, post: 1557507, member: 11668"]Some, but that's going to be true (to some extent) of any reference you use. S&L has some glitches, but it's not bad overall; it's gone through enough editions that most of the errors have gotten fixed, at least in the heavily-used sections like the $1 FRNs. Certain specific areas aren't covered well (uncut sheets, I'm looking at you) but that's not so much an error as a conscious choice about what to cover and what to leave out. The Azpiazu book is much worse in terms of typos...but that's because it's still in its first edition; given time it'll surely get better. And there's no other book available where you can get equivalent detail--if you want the full breakdown of scarce blocks and scarce star runs, it's the only book you can check. (Not to toot my own horn here, but one advantage of my website is that I can fix errors almost immediately after someone tells me about them. Still, even after a dozen years of fixing, there are enough errors left that people keep finding them at a pretty good rate. :( With that experience, I hesitate to go criticizing others on that score....)[/QUOTE]
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