Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!houxm!whuts!tes From: tes@whuts.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote Message-ID: <1173@whuts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 06:26:54 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.1173 Posted: Mon Jan 5 06:26:54 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 06:04:03 EST References: <355@unc.unc.UUCP> <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> <1171@whuts.UUCP> <13880@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 In article <13880@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>, jbn@glacier.UUCP writes: > Terry Sterkel claims that > >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. > >sorry for obscure reference, but I read these books 25 years ago. > > No, that quote is not from Darrell Huff's classic work, > now in its 36th printing. Huff never discusses combinatorics. > What about the 1959 edition? Also, do you have a reference for the "companion volume". -- ----- Terry Sterkel -====---- AT&T Bell Laboratories --------- {harvard|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes ----- [opinions are obviously only my own]