The mistake is significant because it could create incorrect impressions that districts with salary averages higher than the erroneous figures have been paying teachers too much.

According to Susan D. Ralston, the editor of the catalogue at Knopf, "$750,000 is an erroneous figure."

It did this by putting at least one erroneous figure in each list it distributed.

Yesterday, many of those actions - from removing superintendents to sending children to summer school - turned out to be based on erroneous figures.

State officials said the erroneous figures submitted by Empire were not used to determine whether to grant Empire's requests for rate increases.

Then-what-" - "I might have given the computer erroneous figures, maybe.

Police spokesman Oystein Maeland said that higher, erroneous figure emerged as police and rescuers were focusing on helping survivors and securing the area.

The filings, which were made at the time Empire asked for the increases, included data that were different than the erroneous figures, Mr. Curiale said.

But the inclusion of the erroneous figures in rate-setting documents shows the use of the faulty data was wider than previously believed.

And some of the numbers in the rate filings closely correspond to the erroneous figures.