popularity of numbers (was Re: Reference counts)

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Thu May 24 06:37:41 EDT 2001


"Helen Dawson" <helend at accessone.com> wrote in message
news:3B0CB0B6.EA9D2EF1 at accessone.com...
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> and 70 to 15. Zero is a popular number, but 1495? These results

1495 is a _deservedly_ unpopular number.  After all,
Lorenzo de' Medici ("il Magnifico") died in 1492, and
Giovanni de' Medici ("dalle Bande Nere") wasn't born
until 1498, so 1495 fell right in the middle of a very
boring and unusual lull where no really outstanding
member of the Medici family (either branch) was around.

But then, what do you expect of a number that's the
product of 5 times 13 times 23.  A good treatise at
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1008544 is a
summary of the 23 Enigma and its connection to the
Law of 5s, and of course we all know about
triskaidekaphobia, don't we?


Alex








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