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English: Eliminating cultural trendy numbers, single digits, and extremes, 37 is the most frequently chosen random two-digit number by people.
There are 37 genes in the mitochondrial genome. 37 is the number of the most uniform solids in three-dimensional space. There usually are 37 holes in the speaker part of an old telephone. 37% of the options should be sampled and rejected before picking the next better one. You get 37% chances of success when optimal stopping in the secretary problem. 37 is the human body temperature in Celsius. 37 is the first irregular prime with an irregularity index of 1, where the smallest prime number with an irregularity index of 2 is the thirty-seventh prime number, 157. Irregular primes list: 37, 59, 67, 101, 103, 131, 149, 157, 233, 257, 263, 271, 283, 293, 307, 311, 347, 353, 379, 389, 401, 409, 421, 433, 461, 463, 467, 491, 523, 541, 547, 557, 577, 587, 593, ... 37 is the central cell of the smallest magic square using only primes and one. 37 is a divisor of the sum of the squares of the first 37 primes: 2^2 + 3^2 + 5^2 + 7^2 + 11^2 + 13^2 + 17^2 + 19^2 + 23^2 + 29^2 + 31^2 + 37^2 + 41^2 + 43^2 + 47^2 + 53^2 + 59^2 + 61^2 + 67^2 + 71^2 + 73^2 + 79^2 + 83^2 + 89^2 + 97^2 + 101^2 + 103^2 + 107^2 + 109^2 + 113^2 + 127^2 + 131^2 + 137^2 + 139^2 + 149^2 + 151^2 + 157^2= 263736 | {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 18, 22, 24, 27, 33, 36, 37, 44, 54, 66, 72, 74, 81, 88, 99, 108, 111, 132, 148, 162, 198, 216, 222, 264, 296, 297, 324, 333, 396, 407, 444, 594, 648, 666, 792, 814, 888, 891, 999, 1188, 1221, 1332, 1628, 1782, 1998, 2376, 2442, 2664, 2997, 3256, 3564, 3663, 3996, 4884, 5994, 7128, 7326, 7992, 9768, 10989, 11988, 14652, 21978, 23976, 29304, 32967, 43956, 65934, 87912, 131868, 263736} 37 billion disintegrations per second is a Curie: 1 Ci = 37 109 Bq 3×7×37 equals to the lucky number 777 (seven hundred seventy-seven). There are 37 vertebrae in a Tyrannosaurus rex tail. 37 complex reflection groups exist. 37 is the solution to Waring's problem for g(5): every positive integer is the sum of at most 37 fifth powers. There are 37 bars in the digits of a digital clock. 37 seconds passed from sighting the iceberg to hitting the Titanic. There are 37 ways to make $5 using denominations of 5.00, 1.00, 0.50, and 0.25 37 minutes is the golden section of an hour. 37 is a A019296 number giving a near-integer result for Exp(Pi*Sqrt(37)) = 199148647.9999780465518. Other entries in that sequence have even more near integer values, but 37 is the smallest one to be close by 4 digits. There are 37 movements in Beethoven's Nine Symphonies. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays: All’s Well That Ends Well (1601–05), Antony and Cleopatra (1606–07), As You Like It (1598–1600), The Comedy of Errors (1589–94), Coriolanus (c. 1608), Cymbeline (1608–10), Hamlet (c. 1599–1601), Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1596–97), Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–98), Henry V (c. 1599), Henry VI, Part 1 (1589–92), Henry VI, Part 2 (1590–92), Henry VI, Part 3 (1590–93), Henry VIII (first produced 1613), Julius Caesar (first produced 1599–1600), King John (c. 1594–96), King Lear (1605–06), Love’s Labour’s Lost (between 1588 and 1597), Macbeth (1606–07), Measure for Measure (c. 1603–04), The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596–97), The Merry Wives of, Windsor (between 1597 and 1601), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595–96), Much Ado About Nothing (probably 1598–99), Othello (1603–04), Pericles (c. 1606–08), Richard II (1595–96), Richard III (c. 1592–94), Romeo and Juliet (c. 1594–96), The Taming of the, Shrew (between 1590–94), The Tempest (c. 1611), Timon of Athens (between 1605–08), Titus Andronicus (between 1589–92), Troilus and Cressida (c. 1601–02), Twelfth Night (c. 1600–02), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (probably between 1590–94) and The Winter’s Tale (c. 1609–11) 37 is the median value for the second prime factor of an integer. There are 37 miracles in the Bible. There are 37 slots in a European roulette. 37 is the smallest non-supersingular prime and also a cuban prime, a Padovan prime, a lucky prime, a sexy prime, and a permutable prime. The smallest angle of a 3-4-5 triangle is 36.87º. A "perfect" bridge hand sums 37 high card points: four aces (4x4), four kings (3x4), four queens (2x4), and one jack(1). |
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| Author | Pablo Carlos Budassi |
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