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With four parameters i can fit an elephant, and with five i can make him wiggle his trunk.
-John Von Neumann
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With Four Parameters I Can Fit An

John Von Neumann
With four parameters i can fit an elephant, and with five i can make him wiggle his trunk.
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In desperation i asked fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. he replied, "how many arbitrary parameters did you use for your calculations?" i thought for a moment about our cut-off procedures and said, "four." he said, "i remember my friend johnny von neumann used to say, with four parameters i can fit an elephant, and with five i can make him wiggle his trunk." with that, the conversation was over.
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