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True, but the most common human chosen random numbers from 1-100 are 37 and 73 (from a recent Veritasium episode).

Obviously the number 42 is going to occur a lot in a web crawl, but might be expected in majority of cases to be in context of some "answer to everything" joke. I wonder are there really that many contexts where it is presented as a random number ?!




Wellll.... Watching that video now, it looks like the most-selected number in their poll of 200k people was 69, followed by 42. Once /those/ are eliminated, 37 and 73 stand out.

https://youtu.be/d6iQrh2TK98?si=SOpczHGYxhQhP6Rg&t=280




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