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golergka on April 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yad Vashem's database of Holocaust victims' names

Numbers, in general, are a man-made symbolic system to make sense of the real world. So, you're undoubtedly technically correct.

beaconstudios on April 25, 2017 [–]

that's a funny way of saying "it's an estimate based on what we know and what we can suppose about what we don't know".

golergka on April 25, 2017 | [–]

Just trying to find a shed of truth in an idiotic statement by assuming the best one of possible meanings.

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