--- which via Russell's paradox implies that it is no longer arbitrary ... WFL On 4/13/18, Cris Moore <moore@santafe.edu> wrote:
I believe Dirac said that 17 was the lowest arbitrary integer. - Cris
On Apr 13, 2018, at 6:24 AM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
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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