Limits

What this record cannot say

Stated at the top, not buried at the bottom.

three conventions

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Three conventions hold this record up. Each can be rejected separately, and each refusal leaves a different part of the figures standing.

Definition

The record is precise about a narrow question and silent on four that matter more. Naming them is what keeps the precision worth having.

Caution

No organisation, product, service or person appears in any sentence here. Three reasons, and the third is about what happens to pages over time.

Reference

Every number here was computed rather than cited. That removes one class of error and introduces another, and both are stated plainly.

Reference

Two to ten published, one to six met. Both bounds were chosen, and the choices shape every summary figure the record reports.

Caution

Every drawing recomputes its own figures and refuses rows that disagree. The hard case is a panel where every row is refused.

Reference

Five quantities, five formulas and a worked example done twice. Nothing here needs a tool, a source, or any trust in the author.

Reference

Closing the record with the uses it does not support, the one argument it does make, and why a counting problem was the subject at all.

Analysis