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Letter: Letters :

Published 13 September 1997

You are right. The point was badly expressed. It is not diluted to 1 in
10400 molecules in the pill itself, but rather it is so diluted beforehand that
there is only a 1 in 10400 chance of a molecule of the duck ending up in the
pill—Ed.

Issue no. 2099 published 13 September 1997

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