A truly incredible fact about the number 37

Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37 by twelvechairs on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:48PM (#38243946)

Original comment said "all primes up to 37" which isn't correct there's no point where 37 is being used as an upper limit

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Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37 by gattilorenz on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#38243995)

I think that was an intuitive and imprecise way of expressing “median value”, so that 50% of primes are “up to 37”

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Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37 by zelda-mazzy on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:02PM (#38246065)

Im going off what the article originally said:

"We see that 37 is the prime where roughly half of all numbers have something less than or equal to 37 as their first prime! So we’ve proven that 37 is the median second prime!"

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