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After four levels of zero certified copies, sixteen appear here: the threshold is not a rule but a calculation.
Read article →An American booklet from 1972 at the same price as a booklet from last year: at this budget, seniority cannot yet be paid for.
Read article →A role reversal described in full in the advertisements, at two dollars sixteen: a reason that the market names without paying for it.
Read article →Number 34 of the special issue and number 34 of the parent series are two unrelated objects: the name of the title never places a number.
Read article →An album bears the number 20 when the magazines it connects bear 84 or 134: three numberings are superimposed on the same story.
Read article →70 ads out of 288 display exactly €4.00 on August 30, 2026. The block weighs 6% of the sum and yet moves the median from €10.03 to €7.27.
Read article →The same publisher published two simultaneous formats, each starting from one: a number 17 exists in both, with no relation in content.
Read article →A “172 bis” appears between 172 and 173: stored as a whole number, it merges with 172 or disappears.
Read article →Three orders of words for a single object, and the same number at €5.00 and €6.99: two searches which do not overlap.
Read article →Round number, double pagination, holographic cover: three accumulated event markers, and five dollars at the end.
Read article →“August 2016” replaces “number 12”: the sorting of a collection is then based on a calendar, and a number zero distorts any count.
Read article →Three writings of the same title coexist in the advertisements, and no break in numbering indicates the change of name.
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