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Perhaps you mean: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."?

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann




Side note: You can fit an elephant with just 1 parameter. See https://twitter.com/exobenelson/status/1001473539789213697 and the paper linked therein.




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