Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Is "73" the Best Number?

This discussion was sparked by a t-shirt worn by a character, er, a nerd stereotype, on a show, but the idea is worth looking at. I suppose we'd have to qualify the question of the above title as integer, to specify, since we do have a pair of transcendentals, pi and e, that would be hard to ignore.

The case for 73:

It is the 21st prime number;
7 x 3 = 21;
its mirror, 37, is the 12th prime number, which is itself a mirror.

I'm sure other cases could be made by a number or numbers. After writing the argument down here, it seems a little thin.

It's nice, I 'spose...

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