17, the "most random" number.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

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

[E.O.T.]

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?

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

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. 

[E.O.T.]

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. 

HA HA

          what does one get for a 17?

[LMNO]

It gets you arrested for statuatory rape.

[Triple Zero]

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.

[LMNO]

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.