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anomaly
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An Abundance of Katherines
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And yet he could not fix what he came to call the III Anomaly.†
p. 136.6 *

anomaly = something outside of the range of what is normally expected
He would call when he completed the Theorem, which led him back to it and the seemingly intractable III Anomaly.†
p. 161.6
Katherine X—and yes by then I had realized certainly that this was an awfully odd statistical anomaly, but I wasn't actively pursuing Katherines so much as I was actively pursuing girlfriends—was a smart-kid-summer-camp conquer, and I won her heart by, you guessed it, running in front of her bow on the archery course and claiming I'd been shot by Cupid's arrow, and she was the first girl I ever French-kissed, and I didn't know what to do so I sort of kept darting my tongue out from behind closed lips like I was a snake, and it didn't take very much of that for her to want to be lust friends.†
p. 204.8
That was the true meaning of the K-3 anomaly: Having the correct graph from the start proved not that the Theorem was accurate, but that there's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.†
p. 213.9

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