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I think there may be something to this. I write pattern/word generation software for use in password cracking and some of the most common English consonant vowe
by 16s 14y ago
I think there may be something to this. I write pattern/word generation software for use in password cracking and some of the most common English consonant vowel patterns are six characters long. For example, the CV pattern cvccvc matches these proper words and slang words (batman, defcon, summer, winter, bigboy, number, fatdad, hotmom, badguy, soccer, etc). This is just one example of a popular six character pattern, there are more.
- zerostar07 14y agoThere is a well known fact about memory and 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_... But i don't think it applies to words (other languages are very different) If you want a (still speculatory) but rigorous take on this: http://www.med.nyu.edu/buzsakilab/content/PDFs/Buzsaki2010Neuron.pdf http://www.med.nyu.edu/buzsakilab/content/PDFs/Buzsaki2010Ne...
- pygy_ 14y agoIt's not six bytes patterns but six bit bytes, that can store 2^6 == 64 different values. Computers nowadays standardized on eight bit bytes, synonymous with octet, but the definition of a byte is actually hardware-dependent.
- 16s 14y agoThe point is segmenting things by six. No need to think of the 'things' in terms of bits or bytes (of which I'm very familiar). In my example, it is popular English word patterns. In the article, it's bits in memory. Both of which are 'things' of six.
- pygy_ 14y agoI wouldn't look too much into it. Our pattern matching engine is extremely prone to false positives.
- batista 14y agototally irrelavant and off topic...
- andreasvc 14y agoThat's called numerology and it's nonsense. Six is just a conveniently small number, nothing special about it.
- Evbn 14y agoSix is very special. It is the smallest perfect number.
- chc 14y agoIf you were working with German or Japanese it would probably be a different number. This doesn't seem like more than a coincidence.