Comments by "Patrick Berry" (@MundaneGray) on "Why is this number everywhere?" video.

  1. 37 has been my favorite number for half a century, for reasons that seem random to me. In middle school, I played on a soccer team for a couple of seasons. At our first practice, we were all given jerseys with 2-digit numbers. These were handed out randomly, and I got the number 37. I didn’t think anything of it at the time. A year later, at the beginning of my second season, new jerseys were handed out. Once again, purely by the luck of the draw, I received the number 37. At that point, I decided that it was destined to be MY number, and that connection has stuck with me ever since. Was this really random, or was the distribution of jerseys biased in some non-obvious way? I have no idea.
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  2. When I read your comment, I looked up from my phone to see if any 37s were visible in this room. The very first thing my gaze settled on was a digital clock. It was 11:37 a.m.
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