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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: "British Museum" quote
Message-ID: <1835@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Jan-87 10:44:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan  3 10:44:28 1987
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Summary: wrong book

> >A modified quote resulting in "all of William Shakepeares Works"
> >was in either the book "How to Lie with Statistics" or its
> >companion volume whose title I have forgotten.  ...
> 
>      No, that quote is not from Darrell Huff's classic work,
> now in its 36th printing.  Huff never discusses combinatorics.
> [REF]	Huff, Derrell, "How To Lie With Statistics", New York, ...

Take it easy!  The "companion volume" is called _How to Take a Chance._
If I remember right, there's a chimp typewriting on the dust jacket....
(But I doubt that Huff gives the ur-reference.)

	Is Russell Maloney still alive?  He might know.  (He wrote the
classic "Inflexible Logic.") 


	"... they're still at it.  Haven't spoiled a sheet of paper yet."
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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