branes work in mysterious ways

[jwgh]

I was looking at an article about General Tommy Franks, and it included the following quote:

The capture or killing of Saddam Hussein will be a near term thing. And I won’t say that’ll be within 19 or 43 days. ... I believe it is inevitable.

Of course, my immediate thought was, Hey, those are both prime numbers!

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71.89% of all statistics made up on the spot

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

use two-digit prime numbers. I think two-digit primes seem "random" to people just because they're so much more rarely seen than composite numbers, which come up constantly in multiplying small numbers.

Re: 71.89% of all statistics made up on the spot

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I just polled my office for two-digit random numbers.

One picked a prime number, the other four picked even numbers. One even picked 16, which is a rather common power of two.