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17, the "most random" number.

Started by Telarus, June 27, 2012, 08:02:44 AM

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Anna Mae Bollocks

#15
June 28, 2012, 06:28:57 PM
It says on page 12 of this that when told to pick a random number between 10-100 with different even digits, people will almost always pick 68.
http://www.oocities.org/tennislasalle/blaine.pdf
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E.O.T.

#16
June 28, 2012, 06:35:33 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on June 28, 2012, 06:28:57 PM
It says on page 12 of this that when told to pick a random number between 10-100 with different even digits, people will almost always pick 68.
http://www.oocities.org/tennislasalle/blaine.pdf

PERHAPS

          it's a sublime mental step away from 69?
"a good fight justifies any cause"

Anna Mae Bollocks

#17
June 28, 2012, 06:38:52 PM
The conventional wisdom surrounding 68 is "you eat me and I'll owe ya one".
Heard it in a bar so it must be true.  :lol:
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#18
June 28, 2012, 06:44:59 PM
Quote from: TEXAS FAIRIES FOR ALL YOU SPAGS on June 28, 2012, 06:38:52 PM
The conventional wisdom surrounding 68 is "you eat me and I'll owe ya one".
Heard it in a bar so it must be true.  :lol:

HA HA

          what does one get for a 17?
"a good fight justifies any cause"

LMNO

#19
June 28, 2012, 06:48:10 PM
It gets you arrested for statuatory rape.

Triple Zero

#20
June 28, 2012, 06:57:34 PM
BTW a little while back I came across a new explanation for the Law of Fives. It's tangentially related to pattern recognition like our usual interpretation, but a different approach on the fundamental mathematical side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Law_of_Small_Numbers

It also doesn't lend itself as easily to philosophical insights. At least, none that I've been able to discover so far.
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LMNO

#21
June 28, 2012, 06:59:01 PM
That's also covered in the book I'm (still) reading, "Thinking Fast and Slow".  I have to go to a meeting, but while there may not be philisophical implications, there are certainly pragmatic ones.
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