13 Apr
2018
13 Apr
'18
6:25 a.m.
3 is the only random number amongst 1,2,3,4 knuth has a card trick based on it On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:52 AM William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:
Tom Duff says that 17 is the first random number.
On 12Apr 2018, at 9:06 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Cf. the observation that when people are asked to pick a number between 1 and 20, the most common answer is 17.
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