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File:Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster.jpg|link=Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster|'''[[Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster]]''' causes Ford to recall over one million vehicles. Ford will recoup the losses selling misprinted stamps to collectors.
File:Lick_the_Painting.jpg|link=Lick the Painting|'''[[Lick the Painting]]''' is a public-awareness campaign "dedicated helping people make the decision to lick art."
File:Lick_the_Painting.jpg|link=Lick the Painting|'''[[Lick the Painting]]''' is a public-awareness campaign "dedicated helping people make the decision to lick art."


File:Superimposed Fraunhofer.jpg|link=Superimposed Fraunhofer|The '''[[Superimposed Fraunhofer]]''' is a German postage stamp misprint issued on February 12, 1987 in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inadvertently superimposed on the color spectrum bar.  The misprint resulted from von Fraunhofer's unknowing use of incomplete [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions while demonstrating his spectroscope.
File:Superimposed Fraunhofer.jpg|link=Superimposed Fraunhofer|The '''[[Superimposed Fraunhofer]]''' is a German postage stamp misprint issued on February 12, 1987 in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inadvertently superimposed on the color spectrum bar.  The misprint resulted from von Fraunhofer's unknowing use of incomplete [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions while demonstrating his spectroscope.
File:The Socialist Iteration.jpg|link=The Socialist Iteration|"'''[[The Socialist Iteration]]'''" is one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series Star Trek, in which Mister Spock ponders the difficulty of having conversations about the word "Socialism". The episode is loosely based on the film ''My Dinner With Andre''.


File:Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp.jpg|link=Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp|The '''[[Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp]]''' is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus.  The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.
File:Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp.jpg|link=Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp|The '''[[Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp]]''' is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus.  The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.
File:Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster.jpg|link=Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster|'''[[Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster]]''' causes Ford to recall over one million vehicles. Ford will recoup the losses selling misprinted stamps to collectors.


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* [[Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp]]
* [[Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp]]
* [[Superimposed Fraunhofer]]
* [[Superimposed Fraunhofer]]
* [[The Socialist Iteration]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 14:49, 17 September 2022

Earliest known example of the Inverted Flight 19 stamp misprint.

The Inverted Flight 19 stamp misprint is a famous example of a stamp misprint caused by faulty Gnomon algorithm logic.

History

A junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in the United States Navy Advanced Philately division misplaced a decimal point.

Result: Five Navy planes permanently trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Dead Letter Office.

Hashtags

  • #StochasticMisprints

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • Post @ Twitter (17 September 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (31 October 2021)