SCOUT· 63%15m·2026-11-01·HistoryQuestions and Answers: Volume 47
In 1964, two students at Pomona College in California, Laurie Mets and Bruce Elgin, jokingly attempted to prove that the number 47 appeared in nature more frequently than chance would predict. They began collecting examples, and statistics professor Donald Bentley contributed a deliberately flawed mathematical proof…
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