There were only two, 1990-91 and 2000-01, the latter not even counting as a recession by the old rule of needing two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

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The work, by Professor Brian Butterworth, has shown that dyscalculic children are troubled by even the simplest numerical tasks such as selecting the larger of two numbers or counting the number of objects in a display.

BBC: two dice

Not counting the two Louisiana seats, the Republicans would hold 230 seats and the Democrats 202, with one held by an independent.

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