Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

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Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by alter-ego » Sun May 02, 2010 1:53 am

Is the number of members and topics correlated? I doubt it. Now that I submitted this topic, a new member has to join.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Sun May 02, 2010 7:20 pm

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.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by BMAONE23 » Mon May 03, 2010 5:42 pm

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.

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Amir » Tue May 04, 2010 8:19 am

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?!
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:43 am

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!

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(until this post, anyway <g>) I think that quite an elegant prime.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Amir » Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:22 am

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)! :shock:
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Amir » Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:16 am

this an example:
73-again.jpg
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.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by BMAONE23 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:56 pm

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

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:34 pm

Our members are prime. Total members 5399

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by neufer » Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:57 pm

owlice wrote:
Our members are prime. Total members 5399 :ssmile:
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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

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__ As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
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__ Which lead directly to the door of truth,
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by makc » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:32 pm

owlice wrote:Total posts 48221 • Total topics 3863
Both are primes; I got a kick out of that.
You can factor those in your head?? :shock:

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:57 pm

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

I need an upgrade like that...
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by bystander » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:47 am

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

I need an upgrade like that...
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:45 am

bystander wrote:What? You want to be a blockhead?
You say that as if that's a bad thing. :(
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by bystander » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:57 am

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:22 am

Why all the hating?

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

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:25 am

^ And that's the 73079th post... a prime post. :)
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by bystander » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:44 am

On the other hand, it might be an improvement.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:50 am

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by bystander » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:53 am

That's not the way Scott Adams pictures you.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:59 am

I know; he does that just to throw people off.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by Beyond » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:20 am

WoW! a NEW species! A blockheaded er, squareheaded owl.
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by owlice » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:04 pm

Or pointed head, maybe.

Total number of members is currently 5407, which is (need I say it?) a prime number. 8-)
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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by makc » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:07 pm

2011 is... what? orgasm!

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Re: Forum Statistic - What's the odds?

Post by rstevenson » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:46 pm

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'.)

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