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[fbdab103]

>..."a few things" - probably less than ten.

Now those are fighting words. "A few" is obviously 3-5, six in a dire emergency.

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I feel like, when talking about things which you'd usually expect in large quantity, "a few" means "any less than makes a pile."

E.g. for grains of rice, even 23 or so of them could still constitute "a few grains stuck to the sides of the bowl."

Similarly, in databases, "a few rows" is any amount that's not Big Data ;)

[rayiner → fbdab103]

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