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That's just as bad. The problem is in the word "lowest," because it is understood to mean "the one lowest".
by 3143 14y ago
That's just as bad. The problem is in the word "lowest," because it is understood to mean "the one lowest".
- excuse-me 14y agoThe fact that there are 5 is important Your strategy isn't to pick the lowest prime. It's to pick a prime that less than 5 other people would pick lower than - so you will tend to pick a higher number. The larger the group of pickers the higher you should pick.
- mistercow 14y agoIt's not just as bad; it gives a closer to accurate picture, and it's pretty obnoxious of the mods to change it to be less illuminating. The way it's written now, I thought it was going to be about asking people a nonsensical mathematical question (which still has a correct answer), and seeing how the nonsensical curve-ball affects their answer.
- HorizonXP 14y agoAgreed. When I read the title, I thought, "WTH, what's so hard about picking the number 2? Is this article about how few people know this fact or something?"