Stop! Super-prime!: seanan

Stop! Super-prime!

It is now sixty-seven days to the release of Rosemary and Rue. According to Wikipedia (source of a great deal of numerological wisdom that I don't actually have to type up from scratch), sixty-seven...

...is the nineteenth prime number. (The next up is seventy-one, the next down is sixty-one.)

...an irregular prime. (Don't ask.)

...a lucky prime. (Again, don't ask.)

...the sum of five consecutive primes (7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19).

...a discriminant to the Heegner number -67. (I don't even know what this means, but it's cool.)

...since 18! + 1 is divisible by 67 but 67 is not one more than a multiple of 18, 67 is a Pillai prime. (This, I do know, but it would take an hour to explain, and I'd need puppets or something.)

Also, apparently, "In a Voronoi diagram created using points from the prime spiral, no prime less than 10242 will have a rounder Voronoi cell than 67." Cool, huh? There is no Highway 67, making it the highest two-digit number not currently designating any highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. Oh, and in the Prisoner game I was in once, my ex-boyfriend was "67."

Pardon me. I'll just be over here with my ravens and my writing desks, going cheerfully mad.

dornbeast

June 25 2009, 21:13:17 UTC 7 years ago

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I'll just be over here with my ravens and my writing desks, going cheerfully mad.

When the writing desk starts doing this, you can consider yourself on the way.

emberleo

June 25 2009, 21:21:27 UTC 7 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

--Ember--

seanan_mcguire

June 26 2009, 04:46:54 UTC 7 years ago

I should install a voice box.

scifantasy

June 25 2009, 21:23:13 UTC 7 years ago

Pardon me. I'll just be over here with my ravens and my writing desks, going cheerfully mad.

"He takes the glasses off to see/Yellow cat's eyes turn on me..."

June 26 2009, 04:47:09 UTC 7 years ago

If that happens, you'll never find my body.

ladyqkat

June 25 2009, 21:49:11 UTC 7 years ago

Ooooooo - 6 1/4 years until I'm an irregular lucky prime. Go me!

June 26 2009, 04:47:19 UTC 7 years ago

Yay!

stagemanager

June 25 2009, 23:26:47 UTC 7 years ago

Your number-geekiness is very sexy. Just sayin.

June 26 2009, 04:47:34 UTC 7 years ago

Awwww, thank you.

the_s_guy

June 26 2009, 00:26:40 UTC 7 years ago

Ooo, overclocked hamsterwheeling!

June 26 2009, 04:47:43 UTC 7 years ago

I go zoom!

dr_zrfq

June 26 2009, 01:05:31 UTC 7 years ago

Interstate 67 has been reserved for a possible new Interstate in Pennsylvania. (Because PA has insane politicians, that's why.)

There is a US Route 67 though. Runs from Texas to Iowa.

June 26 2009, 04:47:57 UTC 7 years ago

AWESOME!

markbernstein

June 26 2009, 02:58:01 UTC 7 years ago

. . . 67 is a Pillai prime. (This, I do know, but it would take an hour to explain, and I'd need puppets or something.)

I think this should be your next set, all by itself. :-)

June 26 2009, 04:48:12 UTC 7 years ago

That'd be sort of awesome. I should do that.

keristor

June 26 2009, 10:39:41 UTC 7 years ago

How about writing the explanation as a set of teaching songs, and the set then performs those with the hand puppets?

I love interesting number properties like that. Although there was the time I turned 49 and declared that there was "nothing special about that number except that it's prime". Er, OK, I'm a programmer, we don't do basic arithmetic...

June 26 2009, 14:52:32 UTC 7 years ago

Let me finish my epidemiology teaching songs first, and I just might!

grey_lady

June 26 2009, 11:18:15 UTC 7 years ago

You've added some new interesting properties to my list - I was aware of some of them as our house number is 67 and I'd decided that it was a lucky prime.