Still not the fault of the person who did the leaking that the people who did the actual scheming might find themselves in a mess . <| sep |> Did you use carb drops by chance , those little cough drop sized sugar deals you ' re supposed to drop in the bottle and fill over top of ? When I used those I had a 100 % success rate of bottle bombs about 4 weeks beyond bottling . <| sep |> Aside from unavoidable rounding errors in computing , at current prices , if you molded that amount into an actual piece of copper proportional in value to a penny , you would have about a tenth of a millionth of a gram of copper which would be so small , you wouldn ' t be able to see it in a regular microscope because wavelengths of light would be too large to reflect . Anyway . search for floating point error and mantissa for a technical explanation of why computers are inaccurate in terms of pure mathematics .