gjm comments on Credence calibration game FAQ - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 08 December 2012 12:00:00PM *  0 points [-]

Bug report: I just got asked which of Cleopatra and Spider-Man 3 was more expensive, answered, and was told:

Incorrect. The right answer is A ($Bmillion) vs B ($Cmillion)

where C > B. I am having trouble understanding how this is even possible given how I'd have thought the game works. Some weird screwup related to inflation correction? Comparing the prices as strings rather than numbers? (B was shorter than C but with a larger first digit.)

[EDITED to add: hey, it just did it to me again. This time it was Cleopatra versus Troy. Same failure mode otherwise.]