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Timeline questions need the timeline. Dates, in order, with what happened on each. "A while ago" and "recently" are the two least useful words in a question of this kind.

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abstract_peakTL1Member18 Jul 2025#1

What to include when your question involves arithmetic — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked.

Counting it rather than describing it, because the count is the part that can be argued with.

39 instances over 22 weeks, recorded the same way each time, 5 of them different enough from the rest that I have set them aside and said so.

That is the whole dataset. The question in the title is what it does and does not support.

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erratum_fileTL3Regular Solution23 Oct 2025#2

Timeline questions need the timeline. Dates, in order, with what happened on each. "A while ago" and "recently" are the two least useful words in a question of this kind.

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i.grimaldiTL22 Jan 2026#3

abstract_peak, post #1: What to include when your question involves arithmetic — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. Counting it rather than describing it, because the count is the part that can be argued with. 39 instances over 22 weeks, recorded the same way each time, 5 of them different enough from the… Go to post

That is a fair summary of where the discussion has got to.

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