The results of statistics

1. Ten percent of all car thieves are left-handed

2. All polar bears are left-handed

3. If your car is stolen, there's a 10 percent chance it was taken by a Polar

bear

1. 39 percent of unemployed men wear spectacles

2. 80 percent of employed men wear spectacles

3. Work stuffs up your eyesight

Two plus two is five

"First and above all he was a logician. At least thirty-five years of the half-century

or so of his existence had been devoted exclusively to proving that two and two always equal four, except in unusual cases, where they equal three or five, as the

Case may be." -- Jacques Futrelle, "The Problem of Cell 13"

Most mathematicians are familiar with -- or have at least seen references in the

Literature to  --  the equation 2 + 2 = 4. However, the less well known equation 2 + 2

= 5 also have a rich, complex history behind it. Like any other complex quantity, this

History has a real part and an imaginary part; we shall deal exclusively with the latter here.