I do agree with getting it right...and while your point is an absurd extreme it is a good point... However I would liken it to more of a stepping up and reporting 12 then realizing that it was 15....so I still disagree that the reporting is part of the bookkeeping but as long as the result is corrected that is the important thing
and the best part is that it makes us all get in the books to read and re read things we thought we had memorized
which is way more valuable than how we arive at the correct solution
[Edited by cmathews on Jan 5th, 2005 at 09:19 PM]