Did Stephen Hawking fix his numerical mistake?

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I am reading Hawking's and Penrose's joint book called:" The Nature Of Space and Time".
And on page 98 it's written the following:"I have tried to show that the entropy of such a universe would be quarter of the area of the event horizon at the time of maximum expansion (fig. 5.12). However, at the moment I seem to be getting a factor of 3/16 rather than a 1/4."

Did he find where he had gone wrong in his calculations since the appearance of the book?
 
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mad mathematician said:
Did he find where he had gone wrong in his calculations since the appearance of the book?
Without a reference to the actual scientific literature, we have no way of knowing.
 

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