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Error in golden ratio at exhibit? Museum now says it’s right

BOSTON

A Boston science museum that praised a teenager for catching a mistake in the golden ratio at a decades-old exhibit now says it wasn’t an error after all.

The Museum of Science released a statement Tuesday afternoon saying the equation in the 34-year-old “Mathematica exhibit” with minus signs instead of plus signs is actually the “less common – but no less accurate – way to present it.”

The museum initially had written 15-year-old Virginia high-school student Joseph Rosenfeld a letter acknowledging the error and saying it would be fixed. He noticed the minus signs June 4 on a family visit to the museum.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Arthur Mattuck tells the Boston Globe that the two formulas are equal. He says Joseph presented the fraction upside-down.

Double deer: Officials say man kept 2 in captivity at home

HUNTINGTON, W.Va.

Officials say a West Virginia man had been keeping two deer in captivity at his home for at least a year.

State Division of Natural Resources officer Joshua Addesa says authorities discovered the two white-taile bucks when they visited the Cabell County man’s home Saturday after receiving a public tip.

Addesa says the deer had a supply of hay available to them inside the home. But Ronnie Chapman denied the deer lived at his home, saying they could come and go as they pleased.

WSAZ-TV reports that Chapman paid a $300 fine Tuesday in Cabell County Magistrate Court.

Addesa says officers set the deer free but because the animals were domesticated, they may be considered for relocation.

In West Virginia, illegal possession of wildlife is a misdemeanor.

Woman arrested after calling 911 with Chinese-food complaint

ALLIANCE

An Ohio woman has been arrested after calling 911 to complain about an order of Chinese food.

Police say the 44-year-old Alliance woman called the emergency number late Monday afternoon to say the Chinese food she’d ordered from a local restaurant was “not up to par for her liking.”

After police determined the woman had no real emergency, she was arrested and charged with misuse of 911, a misdemeanor.

She’s scheduled to appear in court this week.

Associated Press