Friday 9 November 2007

Numbers

The sacredness of certain numbers, and not others, is a curious thing: 1 is holy, 3 is holy, 5 is holy, 7 is holy; 12 is holy ... a prime-heavy sequence. But why? What (we might ask) is wrong, or mundane, about those splendid numbers 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10...?

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