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DrNosferatu ◴[] No.43558773[source]

Not exactly circles, but famously:

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%27s_elephant

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1. WorkerBee28474 ◴[] No.43561695[source]

Related: 'A meeting with Enrico Fermi' https://www.nature.com/articles/427297a