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The same could be said for other primes like 13 and 19, though.
by spicyj 16y ago
The same could be said for other primes like 13 and 19, though.
- baddox 16y ago13 has pervasive cultural significance, but I agree that 19 seems as "rare" as 17. Perhaps at a glance 19 is less obviously prime than 17. Also note that 17 and 19 are both ages at which nothing really notable happens. 16 is driving age for lots of states and 18 is a big "legal" milestone.
- jarek 16y ago19 is drinking age in most of Canada. 19 feels too close to the nice, round, important 20 to count as properly random for me.
- electromagnetic 16y agoAgreed 17 really doesn't seem to have any significance anywhere in almost any society.
- pigbucket 16y agoI learned the truth at seventeen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Seventeen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Seventeen)
- roundsquare 16y ago19 is too close to one end (20) so probably people feel its less random when the range is 1 to 20. Also, 9 is divisible by 3, so maybe it feels less random.