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By Amy Davidson Sorkin July 20, 2010 "This is a terrible confession," Secretary of Defense Gates told the Washington Post, "I can't get a number on how many contractors work for the Office of the Secretary of Defense".

National Hole-In-One has attempted to put a number on how hard it is to get a hole in one in a round of golf.

"I can't even give you a number on how many autographs I've gotten since I've been in the big leagues," he said.

One possible way to get a handle on how primes are spaced is to calculate, for any number, how many primes there are smaller than it.

"It'd be nice to get a better handle on how the world is using them".

He didn't name either of them (they are Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani); nor did he mention the name Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, who has decorously stalled signing the security agreement and whose family and friends are a reminder that one number we'll never get a handle on is how much American money, sent to develop Afghanistan, has been lost to corruption.

Getting a firm number on cost is difficult.

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They got to put a number on it.

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When you fill a measuring cup or spoon with any ingredient, the amount you get depends on a number of factors: how small you've sliced it, how tightly you've packed it in, how carefully you've scooped and whether you manage to get all of it out of the spoon.