LOL too! mmmmm.....into some quantum mechanics concepts....
So on that basis, when you find one, you actually find one or more even though they may be almost infinitely seperated, and when you put one you found in the right hole and turn it, both or all of them insert themselves into holes and turn in a plural sense. Except for those that exist in the anti-world, which undo as the real world bolts are done up.
Overall then, one might deduce and prove then that your job in indisputable fact did get easier? Even though you only thought it did! Given that the simple act of observing the bolts, causes them to change into nuts, which are out of scope of "lost bolts".
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