Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote Message-ID: <13880@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 13:47:37 EST Article-I.D.: glacier.13880 Posted: Thu Jan 1 13:47:37 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:44:06 EST References: <355@unc.unc.UUCP> <3800001@nucsrl.UUCP> <1171@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 14 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. Both were 50's >or very early 60's vintage books. Author long since 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. [REF] Huff, Derrell, "How To Lie With Statistics", New York, W. W. Norton and Company, 1954, ISBN 0-393-09426-X John Nagle