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Thirty Seven

by samsullivan on 3/29/24, 12:19 AM with 66 comments

  • by spirit557 on 3/29/24, 1:42 PM

    Does anyone else have this experience - The "old" pre-mobile phone style sites that were written without any "mobile experience" in mind are actually the most pleasant and easy to use on a phone (with just some extra zoom needed sometimes) while the mobile version of countless sites are actually the worst? Ironic isn't it.

  • by golergka on 3/29/24, 4:14 AM

    Probably posted because of this video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98

    Which not only links to this website, but also explains the topic in detail. Can highly recommend the channel anyway — especially for the HN crowd.

  • by freezystem on 3/29/24, 12:25 PM

    This video of Veritasium just came out yesterday. Coincidences !? I THINK NOT XD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98

  • by milliams on 3/29/24, 11:13 AM

    A "factoid" is not a "small fact", it is "something that looks like a fact" (cf. 'android' or 'humanoid'). A better word for this kind of small fact would be "factlet".

  • by fuzztester on 3/29/24, 10:02 AM

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/37_(number)

    Also, while fooling around with my calculator in school, years ago, I had noticed this pattern:

    37 x 3 = 111

    37 x 6 = 222

    37 x 9 = 333

    and so on.

    I tried it again just now, all the way up to 37 x 51.

    It works perfectly upto 37 x 27 = 999

    After that the pattern changes somewhat, but still seems to have some sort of regularity to it.

  • by goshua on 3/29/24, 5:15 AM

    Mankind constantly analyzes radio waves from outer space in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Since this analysis started, almost all of the signal sources have been identified. 37 signals, however, remain unexplained.

    https://37signals.com/37

  • by dschroer on 3/29/24, 3:42 AM

    There is something nice and pure about this site. It is probably just coincidence and random that the number 37 is seen around. Likely something along the lines of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

    However none of that matters. What matters is the site is there for all of us to enjoy. It made me smile and I appreciate that.

  • by Twirrim on 3/29/24, 5:27 AM

    Folks that are Star Trek geeks are probably familiar with the number 47, which has a storied history, with claims about how it's is, in fact, the most likely to occur random number, etc. etc, coming out from a society at Pomona College http://47.net/47society/

    The Star Trek link is because Trek writer Joe Menosky is a Pomona graduate, and started to include references to the number 47 (and the reverse, 74) in his scripts, starting in TNG season 4, and it started to take off amongst the staff. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Memory_Alpha:Projects/4...

  • by canistel on 3/29/24, 4:19 AM

    In the number guessing trick popularised by David Blaine 37 is the most probable answer. 13, I think, is the second probable, which is interestingly 50 minus 37.

    https://www.cs4fn.org/mathemagic/streetmagic.php

  • by sillywalk on 3/29/24, 4:29 AM

    37 always reminds me of the movie Clerks.

  • by 01100011 on 3/29/24, 10:02 AM

  • by mag3737 on 3/31/24, 5:22 AM

    The creator of the page discussed here did so while working at NCSA on the Mosaic web browser. All you young people can ask ChatGPT what that is. And by the way, at the time he knew very well, tyvm, all the meanings of the word "factoid".

  • by jetru on 3/29/24, 3:53 AM

    Context: new veritasium video about this

  • by h1fra on 3/29/24, 10:47 AM

  • by shmerl on 3/29/24, 7:05 AM

  • by nvader on 3/29/24, 4:00 PM

    To add to the list of coincidences of this popping up now, I will turn 37 this year!

  • by eliben on 3/29/24, 12:28 PM

    Reminds me of the proof that every number is interesting; it's a fun one to discuss with the kids.

  • by jacknews on 3/29/24, 4:10 AM

    nice, maybe every number should have it's own similar page

    42 is an obvious choice. Picked at random while gazing through the garden window, so claimed the author, be we all know the truth; there are 42 young tableaux of size 3x3, which represent some of the fundamentals of the universe and everything

    lol

  • by nobleach on 3/29/24, 2:13 PM

    Holy Geocities/Angelfire/Tripod! I love looking at this site!

  • by fortyseven on 3/29/24, 1:30 PM

    It's no 47, but...