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Hello and welcome to more or less.

We're the 13,000 mile an hour wind

gusting in to blow away the fog of bad statistics, and I'm Tim Harford.

This week, 60 people, incomes of 50 million pounds, 3 billion pounds in income tax, we look behind the numbers that describe the tax affairs of the super-rich.

In the context of cervical cancer is zero a small number.

A spokesman for the water industry told Radio 4 listeners that water bills have fallen in real terms since 2010. A loyal listener disagrees and he's got a spreadsheet.

But first, the beautiful thing about numbers is that they are everywhere. Whichever area of life, death or journalism you turn to,

there they are demanding to be added, divided, multiplied, or just generally crunched.

That's what the BBC's political editor Chris Mason found out on live radio when the result of the third round of the Conservative leadership

race came in. Four candidates had just been whittled down to three.

Five Live presenter, Matt Chorley, wanted to know for the next round how many votes,

then favourite James Cleverly would need to get to guarantee

him a place in the final two.

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