2023/11/08/37-median

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A truly incredible fact about the number 37 | Chris Grossack's Blog

Chris Grossack's math blog and professional website.

https://grossack.site/2023/11/08/37-median.html

[zdimension]

Very nice post

[khoitsma]

Great post!

Thank you for a well written exposition.

[Walter-Roberson]

The book might have been https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Penguin_Dictionary_of_Curious_and_Interesting_Numbers

[int]

nice write-up. the summation part can be simplified to s += 1/(q-1)

[liuyao12]

Sheldon Cooper's favourite number is 73, which is the 21st prime, and 21=7x3, and its reverse 37 is the 12th prime. I think he would have loved this.

[JobLeonard]

Weirdly enough two decades ago we had an inside joke at my old Maths/Physics/Astronomy/Compsci student union that "37 is the most random number in the universe", and had a dedicated forum topic to share sightings of the number 37 in the wild.

I think that originated more in the story that people tend to pick 37 (or 73) when asked to pick a "random integer between 0 and 100", but still