The List of N Things

Re:The List of N Things by joez on Monday September 07, 2009 @05:23PM (#809776)

My favorite is when N is a nice round number like 25, 50, 100 or 101. What is the likelyhood that the exhaustive list ends up being such a marketable number? Must be very low. So I always wonder what was omitted or, more likely, what pork was added to get to the round number.

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Re:The List of N Things by kabuks on Monday September 07, 2009 @07:04PM (#809919)

I actually tend to trust non-round numbers. Like 9, or 17. It indicates to me that author didn't try to fit the ideas to a number, but actually thought things through and came up with the number after the essay was written

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Re:The List of N Things by byrneseyeview on Monday September 07, 2009 @07:41PM (#809946)

That's why, when I write an article like this, I pick a number like that.

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