"In Defense of Thirteen"
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#essay
13 gets a lot of flak as a number.
It's odd, it's prime, and it's allegedly cursed.
I feel that the beauty behind 13 is vastly overlooked.
Don't sleep on 13.
Let's explore:
- First of all, odd numbers are not to be feared.
- Oddphobia is the modus operandi of the naïve number theoretician.
- Why? Because odd numbers have a
#center. Every obsessive-compulsive wackjob loves centers, right?
- Take 2 vs. 3
- xo vs. xox
- See? xox. Odd, yet centered!
- Prime numbers are not to be feared either.
- After all, what is a prime number?
- Prime means excellent. A prime number is a number that don't take shit from nobody. Who cares if you can't divide it evenly into two different integers? That just makes it unique!
- By the way, not all primes are odd. Even 2 is
#prime, and everybody loves 2.
- Even if you must give-in and divide a
#composite number into two different integers, what then? Divide those two numbers again? Oh shit, what happens if you keep doing this? You end up with an array of prime numbers anyway! It's called
#primeFactorization. Look it up.
- The prime number mustn't be feared. For the prime number is inevitable. The prime number cannot be contained.
- "While enraged, the prime does not feel pity or remorse or fear and it cannot be stopped unless killed."
- Now then, about the alleged "cursedness" of 13:
- Quoting
@Wikipedia:
- "In ancient cultures, the number 13 represented femininity, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year (13 × 28 = 364 days)."
- Therefore, thirteen is only as cursed as is the concept of femininity.
- Which, I must concede, is indeed quite cursed.
- But let's look at all the positive aspects of thirteen:
- Once again, copypasta'd from Wikipedia:
- Thirteen is:
- The sixth prime number.
- A
#twinPrime with 11.
- A
#cousinPrime of 17.
- The second
#WilsonPrime.
- The smallest
#emirp when expressed in
#baseTen.
- A
#happyNumber.
- Ironically enough, a
#luckyNumber.
- And, of course,
#lastButNotLeast, a
#Fibonacci number.
Therefore, you cannot love the
#FibonacciSequence and the
#GoldenRatio without necessarily loving thirteen.
Fear not the
#tridecagon. For this
#BADBOY has feelings, too.
#QED