Adding up
Number
Number verb - To find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Sharpshooter Fallacy: The entire concept of everything adding up to the number 23 (and being so significant) runs on this, but is justified in that Walter is suffering from a terrible obsession, so logic and reason don't really enter the story for the sake of preserving the drama.
Source: Film / The Number 23 - On the American side, war planners in the 1960s estimated that there were about 300 potential targets in the Soviet Union (arriving at that number by adding up all the industrial centers, military targets, and cities with at least 100,000 residents).
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