Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: rushed
  • Music: Aqua, "Barbie Girl."

Nineteen is a very big, very small number.

First order of business for today: the winner of our random ARC drawing! Statistically speaking, all numbers are equally likely when you're talking about random selection, but it's always a little bit surprising when the result is between one and ten. So today was definitely surprising, as the random number generator chose "four." So today's winner is apocalypticbob! Bob, please send me your mailing information via my website contact link. You have twenty-four hours. After that, I'll choose another winner if I haven't heard from you!

Second order of business for today: It is now nineteen days to the official "anywhere you go, you will be able to buy a copy of Feed for your very own, and isn't that terrifying?" release of Mira Grant's first novel. In addition to being hugely important in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower saga (say thankee), nineteen is a pretty awesome number in and of itself. It's the eighth prime number, following seventeen and preceding twenty-three. It actually forms a twin prime with seventeen (I like twin primes). It's the seventh seventh Mersenne prime exponent, and the aliquot sum of two odd discrete semiprimes, sixty-five and seventy-seven. All these things are awesome.

Nineteen days. By the time we finish this countdown, Amy will be here to keep me from flipping out on people, the final touches will be put on party planning, and I will hopefully have been able to pick up my Mira wig from the hair shop (I am so the Hannah Montana of horror). The cupcakes will be ordered. My reading will be chosen (yes, there will be a reading this time). Prizes for the raffle will be arranged. And I will hopefully still be breathing. Nineteen days.

When will you rise?
Tags: busy busy busy, contest, feed, giving stuff away, math is awesome, mira grant, zombies
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  • 11 comments

emurphy42

April 12 2010, 15:59:35 UTC 7 years ago

Yes, but what can you tell us about fourteen?

seanan_mcguire

April 12 2010, 21:41:35 UTC 7 years ago

It comes after a prime, and is divisible by two.

keristor

April 13 2010, 08:20:03 UTC 7 years ago

And divisible by seven, and the digits add up to 5 thus meeting the Law of Fives (plus it's the number before 15 which is three fives). It's a pretty awesome number. (Of course, all numbers are awesome, this is provable...)