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Diary of an excuse hound: Pie charts make us hungry for pizza

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The Boss visits Mission Control to request figures for his monthly management report. After he leaves, PFY creates a fabricated set of numbers, adds plausible exponents, and appends fanciful units. PFY then sends the data through a script file that converts the fabricated figures into a format the Boss can use.

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