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numerology surely. Because you can properly use mathematical operations and statisticsl tools in ways that are physically meaningless.

A sled-dog laden with taxidermied heads goes faster and faster as heads are removed. The economist is surprised but the biologist is not when removing the final head doesn't make the dog run even faster, but stops it dead.