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I bet 37 is pretty popular.
by smackfu 11y ago
I bet 37 is pretty popular.
- pervycreeper 11y agoHow come?
- Xcelerate 11y agoIt's always the number everyone thinks no one else will choose.
- knodi123 11y agoson of a bitch. I swear I thought I was being genuinely random.
- henderson101 11y ago56 and 77 - no reason.. they were just random thoughts.
- drdeca 11y agoI also chose 37, but with the expectation that it would be a common response.
- witty_username 11y agoHypothesis: People think even numbers aren't as "random" and odd numbers are more "random". That leaves us with 1,3,5,7,9. 1 and 5 both divide 10 and don't seem so "random" to us, I guess. That leaves us with 3, 7, and 9. 33, 77, 99, i.e. numbers with repeated digits don't seem so "random". That leaves us with 37, 39, 79. And 9 maybe (not sure if all people subconsciously think this way) isn't that "random" because it's one less than 10 and divisible by 3. Infact, the jargon file says that 37 is the most common random number people will choose[0]. [0] http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/random-numbers.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/R/random-numbers.html
- Scarblac 11y agoI chose 37 purely because it was the first number that came to mind, but then I have also knew that jargon file entry... Second was 51. Clearly the primest looking of the non-primes under 100?
- veddox 11y agoI absolutely agree with your reasoning, but personally I chose even numbers both times ;-) They "feel nicer".
- thanatropism 11y agoThese are the prime numbers between 20 and 100: 23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71 73,79,83,89,97 Evens are out; so are small multiples. A multiple of three might end in 3, 9 or 7. A multiple of 7 may end in 1. So a "conservative mental arithmetic sieve" that wants to make sure one's picking a prime number will coalesce around 29 or 37. Myself, I picked 11 and 17.
- pervycreeper 11y agoInteresting, although this raises the question of why someone would prefer to choose a prime number over composite ones.
- mcv 11y agoIsn't 37 the most random number? I saw a list once of what makes each number from 1 to 100 special. One of them was the most random number (I think 37). Another one was the least special (63 perhaps?).
- robododo 11y agoIn a row?
- lbebber 11y agoFor me it's always like, 32.