Their words clearly express the idea. You could’ve just replied with “ah, my mistake”. It’s not bad to be wrong but it is bad to stubbornly insist you’re right when you’re clearly wrong. The only reason the “impression they give” was wrong is because you truncated the quote in your comment to not include the part of the paragraph that unequivocally disproves what you’re saying.
There’s no need to do maths when you have actual numbers that have been confirmed by a court. I don’t see how your maths does anything but inject confusion into a subject which already has concrete numbers.
