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From: tes@whuts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 06:26:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 06:26:54 1987
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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".







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