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Letter: For the record

Published 27 April 2005

• In our technology trends story on voice recognition (9 April, p 22) we mistakenly stated that humans can expect to recognise all but 0.05 per cent of spoken words. The figure should actually have been 0.5 per cent.

• The diagram of the eye in our article on evolution’s greatest inventions (9 April, p 28) erroneously included spiders and scorpions in the list of arthropods that have compound eyes. As reader Michael Grounds pointed out, they do in fact have simple eyes.

Issue no. 2497 published 30 April 2005

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