[Robert A Cook PE]

On a different tangent, did you know the banker refused to give the mathematician a car loan?

All the formulas were filled out correctly, but it seems he couldn't get a cosign, and then the errors multipied.

[Torie]

and then the errors multipied.

That really doesn't follow from the lack of a cosign. Errors would only multiply if in fact the loan were made, assuming that the mathematician were not employed at an investment banking house, or some facsimile thereof.