Commentary for Zevachim 147:4

איתיביה רבא לרב נחמן אפילו אחת בריבוא ימותו כולן אמאי נימא דמית איסורא מית

[others]; if one [was detached] from the sixty, it renders [others] forbidden. Why is one from forty different? [presumably] because we say, The forbidden [article] is among the majority? Then [in the case of] one from sixty too we must say, The forbidden [article] is in the majority? Rather [this is what he said]: If the forty were all separated to one place, they do not render [others] forbidden; [if] sixty [were detached] to one place, they render [others] forbidden. When I stated this before Samuel, he said to me: Leave idolatry alone, for a doubt therein and a double doubt are forbidden for all time. <br>

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