Between five and ten times the size of the Bible (no one seems to agree on the exact size of the tax code), even IRS employs are unable to accurately explain basic tax code questions.
The vagaries of hardware, software and natural language will always ensure that exact reproducibility remains uncertain, but withholding code increases the chances that efforts to reproduce results will fail.
While it's always hard to pin down the exact origins of an idea -- especially one like pulse-code modulation, where a number of parties were involved -- sifting out the large and significant contributions from the gold pan of history tends to bring up the same names time and again.
In a statement, the council said it was not possible to calculate the exact amount it spent on bottled water because it was not allocated a specific cost code in its records.