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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
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Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote
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Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 13:47:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  1 13:47:37 1987
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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