They take up mental railroading instead?

“Trunk records” for indie music seems 110% appropriate to me.

Wikipedia often has disambiguation pages for numbers that may be helpful in a search like this (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/71).

WolframAlpha is good for identifying numerical properties of numbers (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=71).

OEIS has a searchable set of sequences (http://oeis.org/search?q=71&language=english&go=Search)

I fear that none of these is what you’re looking for, though. My attempts to find something that sounds like what you want mostly turned up resources on numerology, and at least one article apparently about how the meaning of numbers is radically different between cultures.

I’m going for the boring but practical answer: x x ∈ A and x x ∉ A. Obviously the second set is doing the heavy lifting.

Pi is suspected to be a normal number (though this has not been proven). If it is normal, it’s likely that integers comprised of the first N digits of pi will be just as likely to be prime as comparable large integers. I suspect but cannot prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers whose digits are the first N digits of pi (with or without the leading 3).

The average family size is shrinking. I’ve seen my neighbors stretch 55 gallons to 6 or even 7 weeks.

The times, they are a changin’…

Numbers guy here, I can confirm 256 is an evenly specific number, and not an oddly specific number.

I’m really hoping it’s a slipup that you included the Earth revolving around the sun in the list of crazy, there’s quite good evidence for heliocentrism!

“If you give a man a fish, he’ll tape it to a broken ATM in protest. If you teach a man to fish, he’ll tape fish to lots of broken ATMs in protest.” - the wisdom of the elder humans

A shekel is about 11.5 grams, so 21 shekels of silver is ~$300 today.

WaterSeer was initially somehow related to some part of UC Berkeley, rather than MIT.

You may be thinking of this device: http://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30444-X

… Or the metal oxide framework predecessor to it, or the newer thing that uses some sort of gel.

I’m not aware of a commercial product based on this work.

Thank you for this explanation. I got as far as an example that highlights the difference (“I made sure he died.” vs. “I made sure he was dead.”), but couldn’t nail down why there is a difference between those things.

What, you just go through life not daring people to try it? His long hair says: “See what happens. I dare you.”

The text on a Twix wrapper runs in the same direction as the Twix inside, so it’s better to say they’re top and bottom Twix - otherwise it’s ambiguous based on the direction of the packaging.

Also, for double blind experimentation, she shouldn’t know whether it’s a left or a right.

You should get hyped for my upcoming light novel:

I Wrote a Light Novel on my Smart Phone About an OP Protagonist, and I Teleported Into the World of my Novel, but Because I was Someone Other Than the Protagonist, I Died Immediately.

I’m done writing all two chapters, now I just need to find a publisher that recognizes genius when I stare them in the face.

It takes way longer than that for me to share my opinions. The Earth should be rotated at least 30-40 degrees.

I once forgot to install the Linux package when I was installing Arch on a system. Linux even let’s you not use Linux, if you like.

It didn’t boot.

The browser warning appears even for a cert issued by a non public CA you have told your browser to trust, and most browsers already enforce a 398 day limit, so unless you have cooperative users, you’re already (effectively) capped at 1 year of validity.

Most browsers do this for certs with a lifetime longer than 398 days issued after 2020, which is one aspect of why so many websites use a 1 year validity period for their certs.

If I were a government, I’d be afraid of French traditions, too.