Numbers buried in narrative paragraphs do storytelling work, but they can never show pattern across repetitions. The clearest case: a swimmer's back-half fatigue trending from 37.1s to 38.5s across nine 50m reps. The prose can tell you fatigue is real; a chart with a regression line shows the slope — and quantified slope (+0.18s/rep) is information the prose literally cannot carry. Charts don't replace writing; they carry a layer writing can't.
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