The Palestinian death toll is likely in the hundreds, but there has been no way to get an accurate number.
Take me through the process of how an accurate number gets transformed into an inaccurate one.
This year it decided to use the 1995 income tax returns, which officials said they believed would provide more accurate numbers.
That number, if accurate, would likely represent a large fraction of the entire population at the time.
A computer program has helped reveal a more accurate number - there are 915,103,765 possible 6-brick combinations.
It is difficult to craft meaningful policy without accurate numbers.
Final and more accurate numbers (not based on studio estimates) will be available later this week.
Because most of the industry is privately owned, accurate numbers are hard to come by.
In the confusion no accurate number of those evacuated was available.
There is considerable evidence that an accurate number would be much higher.