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Numbers can be tricky. On the day of my 110th birthday, I'll be one day younger than John Tukey was on his.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3104/
This reminds me of Charles Babbage's response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I've been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.
