The figure was originally based on the verdict of the Nanking War Crimes Tribunal which added the burial records of 155,300 bodies with 72,291 destroyed corpses to arrive at a total of 279,586, though there was an apparent adding mistake in this calculation.
这一数字最初基于南京军事法庭的裁决，155,300具尸体的埋葬记录加上72,291具被毁的尸体总共有279,586人，但这一计算有着明显的错误。