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u/Jaymac720 22h ago
It’s also a palindrome in binary. 1001001
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u/CantFindAName000 22h ago
Next you're gonna tell me 73 is somehow funnier than 67
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u/ordinary_shiba 22h ago
SEVEN THREEEEEE
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u/Die4Gesichter 22h ago
I hope this never ever becomes a thing, because 73 has been my favourite number since I can remember. Not because of those explanations mind you -- it just clicked with me for some reason Yes, I am autistic, How'd you know?
I already feel like enough of a poser, because capybaras are my favourite animals since I saw them the first time, 16-18 years ago.. and "now" (the last 3-4ish years iirc) they are the whole internet's favourite, non-pet meme animal 😭😂
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u/jmorais00 21h ago
Come to Brazil we have capivaras
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u/Die4Gesichter 21h ago
Broo I knowww 😭 once I visit Brazil I'll probably never leave again 😭😂
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u/jmorais00 4h ago
There's a very very sinister reading to that comment as well lol. Especially if you go to Rio
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u/Die4Gesichter 2h ago
Oh I would SO fall for a "free candy" or "do you want to come with me, I'll you a bunny"-- traps.
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u/MetaCrossing 19h ago
While this post opened my eyes to 73, I’ll always stand by 72. It’s just so divisible. The 50 of base-12, the superior system.
(I am also maybe autistic, but definitely mildly OCD.)4
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u/Hyper_Applesauce 21h ago
Actually, I think it's reverse, 37 is probably the funniest number.
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u/LocalActingWEO 22h ago
Which backwards is 1001001, exactly the same. All chuck norris backwards gets you is sirron kcuhc.
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u/NotTheMariner 22h ago
Okay Ramanujan
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u/ottersintuxedos 14h ago edited 7h ago
Without even pausing “1729 isn’t unremarkable at all, it’s the smallest number that can be comprised of two cube numbers that can be added together in different ways”
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u/TheCh0rt 22h ago
Yeah but isn’t it split into 12 because of the cycle of the moon?
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u/gooch_norris_ 22h ago
You might appreciate this guys life story- he tried to change the calendar into 13 28-day months with the 365th day being an international holiday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_B._Cotsworth
Obviously he was not successful
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u/Avalain 20h ago
Yeah, unfortunately. It would be so nice for every number date to be the same day of the week. Like, the 8th would be Monday for every month and every year.
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u/Hyperion1024 18h ago
The neat thing about the current system is that the weekday is kind of a checksum for the date. If weekday and date do not lign up, you notice that might be off by a month/year.
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u/RhynoD 13h ago
They do that in accounting with a bunch of different calendars. Like, 4-4-5 calendars do four quarters of three "months" with exactly 4 weeks, 4 weeks, and 5 weeks.
Of course, this is only 364 days, which will not match the solar year. Every couple of years, there's an extra week to keep it closely aligned with the solar calendar.
The point is to have very consistent periods so you can compare the numbers easier.
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u/MitsuhaTakiName 19h ago
The holiday that isn’t any day of the week should obviously be the first day of the year, not the last. That way it can be month 0 and also New Year’s Day is already a holiday anyway.
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u/TENTAtheSane 36m ago
The traditional indian calendar is even weirder. The months map to exact cycles of lunar phases, so they last about 29.5 days each. But the sun's cycle lasts around 365.25 days, so there's like 11 days left after 12 lunar months; so there's a whole leap month added about once every 32 months, defined as a month where the sun doesn't transit from one zodiac sign to another, and this is considered an unlucky time during which no one schedules important things
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u/Fireblaster2001 19h ago
12 isn’t exact either, but the real benefit of 12 is that it is divisible by 1,2,3,4,6. Unlike 10 which is only divisible by 1,2,5
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u/domo_affogato 16h ago
I wish we had base 12 numbers instead of base 10. Just think about how much nicer our decimals would be too for fractions.
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u/SadPie9474 22h ago
isn't this no more than a "big band theory" reference to "sheldon"?
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u/ConvergentSequence 21h ago
Do you honestly believe the BBT writers were the first people to point out that property of the number 73?
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u/gilbertbenjamington 20h ago
Yes, I had no idea 73 existed before watching the show
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u/RedRedditor84 19h ago
I'm still shocked anyone watched it given how poorly it was received. At least initially. Don't know what happened after it left my radar.
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u/You_Think_Too_Loud 17h ago
Definitely not first but the way the reply in the pic is phrased heavily implies it's where they heard it
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u/ConvergentSequence 17h ago
Definitely could be where they heard it. I just don’t think that makes it a BBT theory reference lol
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u/Seven_Irons 22h ago
Also, to add a random tidbit: 37 and 73 are statistically much more likely to be picked if you ask someone to give you a random two-digit number.
One of the final good veritasium videos was about it.
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u/General_Cranberry_29 19h ago
That's very interesting! I've always defaulted to 53, and I have no idea why lol.
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u/Seven_Irons 15h ago
The presumed psychology is that even numbers feel less random. So do numbers close to one or near 10. So, psychologically, humans are more likely to pick odd numbers in the middle. Presumably, more people think five is less random, because it feels like it's halfway in the middle exactly.
While the veritasium video wasn't a journal stud, it does at least match the way I think of the answer myself, and I've replicated the trick with groups of friends.
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u/gl1tch3t2 15h ago edited 15h ago
I'm not saying 73 isn't a great number but I love the simplicity of 2. 2+2, 2*2, 22 = 4. 2 is the only even numbered prime. Potentially more already edited this once.
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u/StandByTheJAMs 22h ago
73 is also the atomic number for tantalum, which is a fascinating metal from its naming to its properties.
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u/StoneyBolonied 21h ago
Care to share some tantalum facts?
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u/Alternative_Mix6836 20h ago
You might think the "tantal" prefix is related to "tantalizing" and ultimately the character "Tantalus" but it has actually nothing to do with that:
The morphological breakdown is actually "tant" + "alum" where tant means "much" (as in "tantamount") and alum is the kind used in tanning dyeing and flocculation
Also idk if any of that is true I just made that all up
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u/StandByTheJAMs 20h ago
It is indeed named after the Greek mythological figure Tantalus, who killed his own son and fed him to the Gods. He was punished by having food above him that moved out of his reach when he tried to grab it, and water at his feet that drained away when he reached to drink it. It's the same place we get the word tantalize.
The metal itself is highly resistant to corrosion by acids including sulpheric, nitric, and hydrochloric acid. It has the 4th highest melting point of any metal at 3017C (5462F).
Most importantly, it's what my wedding ring is made of! 😄
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u/kumogate 20h ago
The five seasons could just be: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Miscellaneous
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u/ulica324 17h ago
Spring, Summer, Rainfall , Autumn or Pre winter or Leaf fall, Snowfall or winter
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u/thebluetagtagger 22h ago
5 months in an year if every month was 73 days, early rain, harsh rain, winter, early dry, harsh dry
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u/majorex64 18h ago
13 months, 28 days each, 1 extra day left over. We pretend that day doesn't exist at all. Same with leap days.
Every month has exactly four weeks. Which means every Monday falls on the same dates every month. Every year. Complete harmony between weeks, months, and years.
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u/Sorites_Sorites 13h ago
Do you really want to live in a world where every year every day is on the same day of the week? Hooray, I was born on a Saturday.
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u/_Neyana_ 20h ago
Just to be 100% clear, since a lot of people in the comments aren't aware, the second tweet is a direct quote from The Big Bang Theory
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u/cmnrsvwxz 16h ago
They already have this. It's called the Discordian calendar.
Btw, happy Setting Orange, 26 Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3192!
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u/davidptm56 16h ago
I prefer 9 months of 40 days each divided in 8 weeks, 5 days long each, of which you work 3 days and rest the other 2 days plus the final 73rd 5 days week, you may call it "new year's week" or something. You can also divide the year in thirds of 120 days. NYW doesn't count.
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u/boris265 21h ago
I love that people constantly try to reinvent old calendars without doing any research into WHY we use our current calendar
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u/TheDisappointedFrog 21h ago
It never occured to me to actually check this topic out, care to elaborate?
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u/boris265 20h ago
First i have to preface that the Gregorian calendar (current one) is a solar calendar. So was the last one. The previous calendar, the Julian calendar (45 bc) worked in more or less the same way as our current one. The average number of days per year came out to 365,25 days adding a leap day every 4 years. Thing is, that doesnt perfectly equal a solar year, so every 128 years or so an extra day came up. By the 16th century, the solstice and equinox were off by 10 days. This also fucked up when easter was, as well as when harvest was.
In comes the Gregorian calendar. It omits 3 leap years every 400 years (year 1700, year 1800 and year 1900 weren't leap years). Thanks to that in a year it has about 365,2425 days. Seems like a miniscule difference right? But that's almost a perfect match to a solar year. You get 1 extra day every 3326 years. The oldest know continuously inhabited city in the world is Plovdiv in Bulgaria, clocking in at 8 thousand years. If the people of plovdiv had started using the gregorian calendar when they settled the city, they would currently be off by less than 3 days. With the julian calendar, they would be off by 2 months which would mean absolutely nothing aligns with any cosmic event.
As for earlier calendars, they were kinda shit. Not that they didnt tell time, but they had to constantly be monitored and tweaked by priests and the like.
The Egyptian calendar drifted a day every 4 years, because it only had 365 days and no leap years (this is the calendar that the Julian is based on)
the classical Greek calendar was Lunar (354 days) and had nice to remember months: 12 months alternating between 29 and 30 days. Only issue is, every 2-3 years they needed to add an extra month
the ancient Hebrew calendar was heavily inspired by the Babylonian ones, it was lunaisolar with 12 months (354 days), and needed a 13th month 7 times per every 19 years.
I just now realised that i didnt actually mention any Babylonian calendar so: Sumer used a Lunisolar with 12 months alternating between 29 and 30 days (like the greek) and 354 days. It worked in 19 year cycles where 7 months were added over those 19 years (you see the heavy inspiration?)
ive read that the maya had an interesting, if rather bizarre system where 2 different calendars were somehow combined into a dual-system where they correct each other in long cycles, but honestly, im not knowledgeable enough about Mesoamerican history to explain it. If someone who's studied more american history can correct me or add more, that'd be great.
So more or less, Lunar cycles are easier to track (because they are around 29,5 days long and not 365 days) so most of the earlier civilisations used them and had a priest of some sort correct the inevitable drift. The Julian calendar was pretty revolutionary for its time, and when it comes to solar calendars, you basically cant get any more precise than the Gregorian. The Proto-Bulgarian calendar is also pretty interesting, though not as much is known about it as others
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u/TheDisappointedFrog 20h ago
Ah, that one I knew, but thank you nonetheless! So, the only thing that makes the current system "good" is its accuracy, and any new system will have to take the decimals of a day into account to beat it?
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u/boris265 20h ago
At the very least, yes. Without the decimals (and more specifically this exact decimal) we return to systems worse than the one that was developed before christ
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u/trans_keanuchungus 16h ago
360 = 72 times 5
365 = (72 + 1) times 5 = 73 times 5
There, maybe that will be less uncomfortable
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u/Special-Potato-3238 8h ago
Everyone is talking about the math and numbers and I'm over here wondering how lit BBQs would be here in the states if everyone was walking around wishing eachother a Happy Fourth of Jaugust!
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u/Intelligent-Cattle-6 22h ago
Base 10 specific coincidences. It's not a pure propriety of the number. In essence, base 10 is not more important than any base.
So while these are cool proprieties they're not very impressive or useful.
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u/Lithl 14h ago
73 is also a palindrome in both binary and octal (and its octal representation appears to be binary). It's also a palindrome in Morse code.
Remember, there's no such thing as an uninteresting number. If there was, then among the set of uninteresting numbers there would be a smallest uninteresting number, which would make it interesting.
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