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Well, near the start it refers to "an exponential growth of 3 per cent per year, or multiplying by about 10 every 100 years" when in fact 1.03^100 is about 19. At which point I have little confidence that that's the mathematical error; it suggests a level of sloppiness likely to produce others.
<not serious>Clearly the 3% and 10 figures are given to within one significant digit each. 1.026^100 = 13.02</not serious>