Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

[alter-ego]

Is the number of members and topics correlated? I doubt it. Now that I submitted this topic, a new member has to join.

[owlice]

My favorite forum stats so far were on 04/27/10:

• Total posts 48221 • Total topics 3863

Both are primes; I got a kick out of that. I also like palindromic numbers.

[BMAONE23]

Both Palindromic and sequential numbers occur often in my life. For example the sequence 1234 is always turning up.
AndI've had several phone numbers ending in 5665.

[Amir]

the number which was repeating in my life over and over in the past 3 years is 73.
you may not believe me but it came in front of my eyes for few thousands times!
i just don't know why 73?!

[owlice]

Amir, it might be the "new car" syndrome. When you get a new car, you suddenly notice how many other people drive that car. (Or the "half a cow" syndrome; once you start looking for half a cow, you see them when others don't notice them at all. There used to be a website for this, even, -- now taken over by an Aussie rock group -- where pictures of half-a-cow sightings were published.)

Once you became sensitive to 73, you are more likely to notice it when it does show up in front of you. I advise you to look for 37!

Total posts 51151
(until this post, anyway <g>) I think that quite an elegant prime.

[Amir]

yes, i know what you are talking about; but no, this is truly happening to me. even others have noticed that!
i may look a bit (!) insane, but i've even calculated the percentage of the times that 73 appears to me! and it is the highest among two-digit numbers (10-99)!

[Amir]

this an example:

there are three 73s in one page waiting for me!
there are also other interesting numbers. look at 33, 22 & 11 standing right after each other, for instance.

[BMAONE23]

If you can believe what she says,
Sylvia Browne has written that these number combinations are likely to be sign posts that we are predestined to encounter as a means of telling us that our life is progressing in the right direction. True or not, it is an interesting concept

[owlice]

Our members are prime. Total members 5399

[neufer]

Our members are prime. Total members 5399

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Prime, a. [F., fr. L. primus first, a superl. corresponding to the compar. prior former.]

1. First in order of time; primeval; primitive.

5. Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

_____ Othello, The Moor of Venice Act 3, Scene 3

IAGO: It is impossible you should see this,
__ Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
__ As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
__ As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
__ If imputation and strong circumstances,
__ Which lead directly to the door of truth,
__ Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.
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[makc]

Total posts 48221 • Total topics 3863
Both are primes; I got a kick out of that.

You can factor those in your head??

[owlice]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090401.html

I need an upgrade like that...

[bystander]

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090401.html

I need an upgrade like that...

What? You want to be a blockhead?

[owlice]

What? You want to be a blockhead?

You say that as if that's a bad thing.

[bystander]

[owlice]

Why all the hating?

So sad. So very sad. There is no peace for the differently-headed.

[owlice]

^ And that's the 73079^th post... a prime post.

[bystander]

On the other hand, it might be an improvement.

owlice [i](Credit: Scott Adams)[/i]

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[owlice]

owlice

[bystander]

That's not the way Scott Adams pictures you.

[owlice]

I know; he does that just to throw people off.

[Beyond]

WoW! a NEW species! A blockheaded er, squareheaded owl.

[owlice]

Or pointed head, maybe.

Total number of members is currently 5407, which is (need I say it?) a prime number.

[makc]

2011 is... what? orgasm!

[rstevenson]

Fascination with irrelevantly coincidental numbers is exactly how numerology got started. (The number of characters in that sentence is prime, as is the quantity of the letter 'e'.)

Rob