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Re: "Last 30 Days" totals apparent jump
pnm wrote:
... Great, I solved this one the Italian Way (= wait until the problem goes away
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Not a bad philosophy
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, and I am affraid, Patrick, we have something similar in my country: "Let the things as they are ... ". Let me today to digress a little: That point of view looks like a corollary of a "theorem" that I have developed and that I define as
"The principle of the inverse proportionality"
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(it sounds like the Murphy's law but it's quite different).
Let's see (following the digression): Applied to this situation it would be "As much as you fix something as less as it will work properly". But there are many other examples, for instance: "The duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the number of persons invited to the wedding" (or inversely proportional to the size of the bed, it's clear that 2,40 m. wide is not very advisable
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), "The quality of a science-fiction film is inversely proportional to the amount of money spent in its production", "As higher is the prize of a pen (gold, platinum, diamonds, ... ) used to write something as lower is the level of knowledge of the owner" (though this last has a
direct proportionality version: "... as higher is the number of grammar mistakes made by the owner"), etc.
Or, i.e.: "As higher is the number of valid solutions of a Calcudoku as lower is the number of puzzlers satisfied with the result"
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and this would drive directly to the need of a unique solution.