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}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|title=Crackpot index|website=math.ucr.edu|access-date=2018-07-17}}</ref> An earlier version only had 17 questions with point values for each ranging from 1 to 40.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|title=Crackpot index|date=1996-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961110050053/http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html|access-date=2018-07-17|archive-date=1996-11-10}}</ref>
outburst from a retired mathematician insisting that TIME has INERTIA".<ref name=NSFeedback>{{cite magazine
| date = 5 December 1992
| title = Feedback
| url = https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13618508-100-feedback/
| magazine = [[New Scientist]]
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Baez later confirmed in a 1993 letter to ''New Scientist'' that he created the index.<ref name=BaezNS>{{cite magazine
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