Every now and then, I check my Amazon profile and see how many helpful votes my reviews have generated. Even though my last review (for a no longer offered journal with Tomoe River paper) was a year ago today, the number of up votes has been slowly growing, and is now up to 997.
One of my first thoughts was, "I wonder if I'll hit 1000". Then I thought, "why should that be anything special?" Is it because it's a largish round number, a multiple of ten, a power of ten?
997 is special in its own way. It's a prime number, and the largest prime less than 1000. But then, why should that be special either?
How many of us do have these "irrational" feelings about certain numbers? What does it say about the way our minds work? I have to admit that I'm more interested in the questions than in finding definite answers for them, which is probably just as well.
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