Why is this number everywhere?

Yippee!

wow! definitely subscribing to the patron!

Must admit I was rather interested in how different regions, languages or cultures affect the statistics you collected, so a bit sad you didn't discuss that. You did say 37 is prevalent everywhere, but how much and to what extent does it differ?
Like, I don't think I see it much over here when it comes to roadsigns or pricetags

I doubt people will watch this episode enough to move the selection process needle. In fact, probably only 1 out 37 people will have seen it.

I agree with ​@@feha92. Seems more like a feeding number to people and asking them again.

Only 37% confusing.

​@@andrasbiro3007I beg to differ. It is a 37/37 chance of confusion

Reading this after you posted 37m ago :p

You literally commented this 37 minutes ago for me...

Im Here 37 minutes after the comment was posted

My parents said if I reach 30K, they'd buy me a professionaI camera for recording!! Pls guys I'm literally begging you...

The video has only been out for 8 minutes you liar

I have listened to it over and over on max volume and I swear he says 36, not 37. 😵‍💫

@@Okamikurainya we need to get your ears checked, my friend.

@@Okamikurainya Watch his mouth
six only has 1 syllable but his mouth moves twice (not counting the 30)

Ok ³7 slayed my demons.

37% of my favourite bread consists of whole grains.

37 likes as well

What a minute!!!!!!! I just turned 37

Guys... this comment has 37 likes

Everyone that finished highschool: Sure...

@@user-cb8mj6dp5m Everyone who finished a GOOD highschool. I went to one of those factory schools that doesn't teach you anything other than how to sit still for six hours and do repetitive tasks. Taught meself calculus.

370 likes😭

woah I wonder if it would be the same if the number system isn't based on 10? Like if the max number is 9, would there still be mirror images of 37 equivalent?

@@xkilla911that’s an interesting question. I will look for a video explaining other number systems after this.

This comment has 37 likes. I can't touch it

yeah yeah yeah and 21 is divided by 3 and 7, blah-blah-blah. We all watched TBBT, thank you very much.

You just blew my mind. It’s a full circle. Now I have to go watch Teenage Butant Binja Turtles.

It's 23:50. Just add 2 to 5 and 0 and leave 3 and you'll have 37. A little comfort :D

first thing i checked was video length

That was clever

The fact that this popped up in my youtube homepage recommendations 36 minutes after it was posted is also an insult.

if it was just 1 minute and 1 second shorter, 22:49, it would've been 37x37 seconds long

Something like 36 ,,, 36!?? Is that including me !?? Err 37

@@ifindmetal yeah, I believe that scene was titled " Snowball".

@@stnkfngr6109 I laughed harder watching that movie than any other , probably had something to do with being a convenience store clerk back in late 90’s when this came out situations were so relatable lol

Look here for the funniest video response to Derek from Germany.

Heyy! I used to have that memorized! Thank you for the memories.

Why 42 though?😂

@@calebadobah641 meaning of life

What’s the reason?

@@calebadobah641 either because of the number in his logo or because its the closest number to 420 the second "funny" number after 69

42 is a pop culture reference to the meaning of life. Look up the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

thanks for making the single best joke in this comment section

😎

what about other number bases? base 2 or base 16?

no way

¿Está en la base numérica decimal?

🎂Wishing you a very happy & transformative 37th year 🥳
Perhaps next year I'll celebrate mine again ☮😊

My parents said if I reach 30K, they'd buy me a professionaI camera for recording... Pls guys I'm literally begging you!

I’m 69 so what does that mean

Me too (as my girlfriend just pointed out 😄)

so you're evverywhere!!!!

Well your 38 next year

Don't translate.....
भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ‎

​@@ville__😂😂

​@@ville__uttp kid

Probably KRplus algorithms picked up the number from the video and matched with the Ad😃

404 likes

Oh my god

You have a point

Yeah as much as there is legitimate and interesting information in this video, it does feel like there’s a LOT of confirmation bias

​@@omkarnagarhalli5217then why will people like your comment until the number of likes stop at 37?

@@omkarnagarhalli5217 I mean, I can understand ruling certain numbers out, as they were explained in the video. Like priming numbers from the question 1 and 100, and the obvious sex joke reference 69 (you wouldn't get this bias in surveys outside internet culture actually)
But I agree, at some point it felt like they were ruling out too many numbers just to get 37 at place 1. But at least one cannot deny the pattern of 3 and 7. But I would assume this is simply because they just feel right.
They are odd, lie exactly between multiples of 5, are not multiple of 10 (which is also the reason most multiple of 10 seemed to be the least favorite in the survey, as they just felt too even, too easy, too unrandom, at least to me)

I think we all know why 69 isn’t random 🫣

i can see why they say 42 is “not random” lmao

@@rocker8890 closest thing 420 probably because they might've wrote it as "42.0"

69 likes on this comment, perfectly balanced, as all things should be

Did you not see the 42 written under the channel picture?

🥸

lol

That’s fascinating… like wow!

@@siddhant-lz7ujl lol

Hahahahahaha

It's Most Likely Cause, now a days we Have Demonize Number * "36" so, people just add 1 to it and Made 37. Simple. If U know what I mean
😂😅

Also number 137 shows up a lot

Thats what i said when i first saw it!

Yeah, and the random quality of it is prominently caused by its odd prime digits 3 and 7 and by the fact that its prime.

Could i ask you to expand, will do my best to understand and if needed further explore myself

Don't translate.....
भवतः हृदयस्य धड़कनं कतिपयेषु घण्टेषु स्थगयिष्यति, अस्य शापस्य मुक्तिं प्राप्तुं एकमात्रं मार्गं मम चैनलस्य सदस्यतां कुर्वन्तु ‎

why is 69 ignored

sex@@pranshukrishna5105

​@@pranshukrishna5105 funny number

Nice

and 42 lol

that is indeed a distinct possibility

Yep, what number did you guys think when you first heard what he asked in the video? I thought of 97,still what he said is true. It's weird I thought of something ending with 7.

undoing all that careful work on 23 by Robert Anton Wilson!

Wait until he discovers what 1/137 is. He gunna 🤯

@@ethanmax97 for me it was 47, so pretty close

Can you see my comment before this one?

i completely agree i think thats also why people tend to rate things 7/10 or 3/10. its the sweetspot lol

Exactly!

This explanation was part of the video if you watched it.

Yes

Do you know how he did it?

@@sammy-brawlstars7350 Split the number up into 3-digit chunks starting from the right (so 21485 would give you 21 and 485 for example), and add them up. If that sum is a multiple of 37 so is your original. You can repeat multiple times if the starting number is big enough.
It's basically the same as the trick for 3, just 3 digits at a time. It comes from the fact that 999 is a multiple of 37.

​@sammy-brawlstars7350 999 is divisble by 37. If you split the number into the first three and second three digits then if you add them together and get a multiple of 37 the original number is also a multiple of 37. I think the rest of the trick is memorising the multiples of 37 less than 2000.

Its easy, because 37 divides evenly into 999. So you add up the first 3 digits and the last 3 digits, like 413 + 625 = 1038. You can do that again, so you get 39. If the final number, which is < 1000 is divisible by 37, the original number is. This means you have to remember all numbers that are multiples of 37 less than 1000, but there are only 27 of them, and can be learned with a bit of effort.
Also, if your number is longer than 6 digits, its still very easy, you just split it into more groups of 3, beginning from the least significant digits, and add everything up.

@@TheCavemonkthe video about the unsolved constant( 1/137 )makes alot more sense now

I did the same thing! 37 times!

That seems almost more suspect than having a lot of instances of 37 🤔 almost like someone is hiding the truth from you...

Omg I was gonna say I always see the number 101 and I checked the likes on this comment to my surprise it’s 101 😂. But probably just because I pay attention to it more than any other number.

@@diaryofacrankykid7270oh Man U guys r hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's a lie they throwing everyone off 27

Lol I though the same

While I understand the Meaning of Life=42, it didn't occur to me at the intro of this video when people were responding with their 'random' number. Plus, one has to be of a certain age to know this little quip about 42. Discounting 42 on this basis skews the results unless they asked a follow-up question to each person saying 42; why did you pick 42? If respondents say anything other than HHG or Meaning of Life, there's no justifiable reason to discount ALL submissions of 42.
As for 69, I've no idea. So probably the same applies; if they didn't ask for a reason to choose 69, then they shouldn't remove 69 from the collected set. So much for quality science: throw away anything that doesn't match the outcome you want and call the experiment a success.

yea Lol

@@TXDude 69 is a meme number, it will always be picked more. Are you denying that the outcome was a success? Its clear that 37 was picked more often than most numbers. Biased data is thrown out all the time.

​@@TXDude He discounted 42 because it's in the channel logo

can I interview you?

Commenting 37 mins after you.

@@animatedzombie64good one, i commented 37 seconds after you

Lol 😂

fr

The fact this had 23 likes before I hit it struck me, thanks to the film 23. Quite a coincidence

@@Planehazza I know what you did last summer

Bingo

On Earth you have a variety of interests.
The workings of life gets dismantled hence the search for nuances like numbers.
If you are interested in the basic binaries of life, example 1's and 0's, your purpose becomes clear and the nuances becomes absolute.
It is a matter of living your best life as a 1 or as a 0.
Ps. 1's is Always the way to live a Good Healthy and Wealthy Life.
Ahoeaaa.

Are bulk items usually shipped in batches of 27? (Perhaps shipped in 3x3x3 cubes?) This explanation would only work if they are.
True, things are often priced ending in 99 cents, but those prices ending in .99 aren't divisible to end in .37 unless there's a batch of 27 (or 127, 227, 337 etc) of the item sold at the same price.
I would've assumed that things would much more often be shipped in containers with even numbers of items per side. Anyone familiar with the shipping industry know if bulk items are commonly shipped in 3x3x3 cubes?
This explanation also only works if B2B wholesale prices end in 99 cents. Is that common for bulk items? (From the little B2B pricing I've seen I wouldn't expect it to be, but I've only worked with B2B SaaS pricing, not with B2B pricing for bulk items that are intended to be re-sold to consumers. I'd expect a retail price ending in .99 to be much more common than a wholesale price ending in .99, especially since wholesaling at numbers ending in .99 would mean that the retail price wouldn't generally end in .99, which would be problematic for retailers wanting to sway consumers with pricing psychology.)
[edited for spelling]

I saw that Veritasium removed 42 insiuating it was was about them instead of Hitchhiker's Guide, and promptly unsubbed after 10 years because at this point valuing engagement is more important than creating an actual "Idiocracy" through misinformation presented as fact. It's happening everywhere, but the fact that it's happening here is most concerning...

2am here, I may be cooked

@@KeepFeedingMeImStillHungry42 wasn’t even close to the Amount of 37, nor does it have anything to do with the main topic of the video. Also most people do not know that the answer to life is 42 lol. Assuming that 42 was mostly because of their channel logo, on a poll on THEIR channel is a fair assumption.

The show has become commercial, sponsored (bribed). Good bye.

I read your comment and had to check the time. It was 7:37 am...

Same pal the only reason I clicked, it was too freaky to pass up😅

@@dreamoflegends4004oh same! I wasn’t interested in watching it but I had to click because of that lmao

Saaame. We are the chosen ones ​@@go5reni

@@dreamoflegends4004and the thumbnail with the sun as the decimal

Happened to me too

Look here for a video response without a sponsor. Prepare to laugh!

Statistically it's either 69 or 42

same

real

I also regret not remembering lmao

I thought it was 23

Thats funny ive been seeing the number 15 everywhere.

Your comment should end up with 37 likes or 3.7k likes

Exactly. I’ve been long telling everyone I know that the number follows me, was even my roll call number in school most of the time.

Same here

Hi

Redditors being redditors

veritasium needs to make a video on that number too

@@leopold3146 redditors being redditors

Nice

I haven't seen it yet by if i had to guess... Its a nice number.
I wonder what will happen to the world if this test didn't yield 37 and have that "nice" number as the result instead.

I understand 69 but why 42?

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and also 420 is a thing

@@joshhill801042 is the answer to everything in the universe from the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy and it’s been a popular cultural reference since then

​@@joshhill8010Kids these days.

@@joshhill8010 Douglas Adams

Let's go Justin!

holy moly

Mindblowing

Throwing this out there: We are schooled to not revel our age. When you’re a (very common) baby boomer 37 is safely not your age or the age of your milieu.
Fun video and interesting topic -

@@ruthmiale1239 age?

Fox Mulder - please call your office.

WOW!

Bazzzingaaa 😂

Alright! 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.

Thanks!

My name is Sheldon…

It's called confirmation bias.
Red pilled men do it with feminine behavior they don't like.

Also 3 and 7 are well known magic numbers. It's super hard to take this out of any study as the culture that brought this has been here for thousands of years. The only thing more culturally enshrined in the West is calling mothers something like mama.

I would like the comment, but it has 42 likes... that means something

53

came here to point out exactly this but u did it far better than i ever could

That is EXACTLY what came to my mind. They are both odd, prime, and the number is prime. You even know that 37 is prime because you know your times tables and it wasn’t there.

Yes. As a college student in the late seventies I worked for a couple of summers on an extra rail gang for Burlington-Northern in Indiana and Ohio, both laying new track and replacing old ties on existing track, the old-fashioned way. I have -- or had -- a few of those nails from old ties that we replaced. If I find them, I'll have to check if I have any from 1937.

As someone in his class currently, I have sent a message to him with a screenshot of this comment. He replied saying he's already gotten at least 10 emails about it :D

I came looking for this comment! Back in 1988 my dad and I built a retaining wall out of old railroad ties, there were some date nails in some of the ties (though none as recent as 37, mostly years in the early 1920’s). In the early 2010’s someone partially disassembled the wall and stole the date nails, apparently the nails were (are?) quite valuable to collectors.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that 😎🖖

Yes, I too saw that and came here to see if I would be the 37th to tell him, maybe the 370th.
There were rarely-used railroad tracks in my neighborhood growing up, and we kids had a game of walking on the ties and avoiding any that had a nail from 1950, the game was called "50-50". The railroad must have had a major repair effort that year, because there were quite a few 50s and sometimes two or three in a row.

Underrated comment

rules of 3 is littered all throughout western literature, Hegelian dialectics, holy trinity, etc. 7 is a "lucky" number, 7 days it also took in the bible for god to create the universe.

Surprisingly underrated comment section

You deserve an applause for this, and the world peace award.

I agree. Also part of the lyrics to the song "The Body Electric" by Rush... Trying to change its program
Trying to change the mode, crack the code
Images conflicting into data overload
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
S.O.S.
1-0-0-1-0-0-1
In distress
1-0-0-1-0-0

And 12 is product of 3 multiplied by difference of 7&3 😅

Or any 3 digit number with the same numerical value.
333\9=37
444\12=37
555\15=37
or the other way
777,777\37=21021
888,888\37=24024

@@MrBlazingup420 My brain can handle only so many gasms

@@SmallBobby oh my days i didnt realuse

Because in science the name often describes the phenomenon.

@@goacoa So how does 'Fallopian tubes' describe the phenomenon? Lol. Or any of the myriad of eponyms in any scientific field; 'Bohr's law?' Haha

I thought this was an april fool because it shortens to the BS phenomenon

@@DjoumyDjoums I thought the same. But i did search it, and it is a real thing.

Take it from an autistic person: 37 and 111 take on an associative behavior. 37x3=111 okay, but since a geometrical behavior still needs to be addressed, the answers derive from this behavior.
Three 37's triangulate and are connected together by the product (111). This interchangeability shares information equally.
It's when we go further and express this as an inverted triangle (Mercedes insignia), then trap it in a circle that we find the circle must have a 111 degree circumference, and three sectors of 37. These reconfigure to three 137's ...
which are three primes ... and the Fine Structure Constant at the same time.
I recently completed a book on these very numerical behaviors. Mind shredding ...

The fact that this comment has 37 likes shows that this number is not that random

ikr lol

I was the 37th like.

Whoa, now it's at 137 lmao that's actually so weird @@shwetaverma2164

Now it’s 237 lmao

Impenetrable

was it an obscure language known as french?

Derek is Canadian. French isn't a foreign language in Canada XD.

@@KaitlynBurnellMath Isn't he Australian ?

@@R_V_ I believe he moved to Australia for school

hahahaha, this made me laugh, that's hilarious!

36 likes

you just 37ed and walked away

good one 😂😂

🤣 This person needs, nay, deserves 37 replies🫡

Absolutely either the intuition of the marketer or proprietary market research into what the most "authentic" number to use as a percentage was. Especially given the presumable bias towards numbers under 50

Sounds like the algorithm simply matched an ad that features a word which appears like 200 times in the video.

haha, so they made up a 'random' number' % for the ad? ;-)

That’s because 37% of all statistics are made up

Imagine not having an adblocker 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

NO WAY IT ACTUALLY ISS

KRplus really knows how to f with us

The simulation devs must be having a lot of fun rn

It’s back to 37!

I was the 137th like 💀

Hand it to the guesser and then walk away, so when they open it you’re gone and they are so confused on how the trick worked

*Derren Brown has entered the chat*

"You picked 37"

We were taught to just ask the pilots

Kevin??

You commented this 37 min ago

I want to know that something

@@SoloLevellor you commented this 37 seconds ago

​@@c_sea1nYou commented that 37 minutes ago

harumph...they say 69 is THE number, but it isn't; 77 is..Why? Because you get 8 more....
think about it..
think about it..
mind in the gutter?
now you got it! :)

69 likes. Nice

The fact that he said "let's remove 69 because it's not random" and provided no further explanation as to why it's not random made me curious. Then I realized smart audience will figure it out 😂

Yeah?
Also: 666 / 37 = 18. While simultaneously, 6 + 6 + 6 = 18.
Also: 444 / 37 = 12. While simultaneously, 4 + 4 + 4 = 12.
Also: 111 / 37 = 3. While simultaneously, 1 + 1 +1 = 3.
Meh'. Color me unimpressed. The world is not going to end due to some numerical coincidences. The world will go on.

Y’all just f’d me up with all these numbers on top of more numbers. I’m going to have a math based nightmare tonight.

This is crazy. Math is cool​@@Fritz_Schlunder

This is absolutely incredible.
It means nothing, but it's amazing lol

111 is a common factor for the rest of the numbers, so it’s just a coincidence- it looks cooler than it actually is.
But a really neat coincidence none.
But that’s the whole feeling 37 has to it…

Came here for a 23 reference

Damn, you beat me to it.

Like in the video you need to pass the first 37%, and pick the best after 42 seems to be the answer for some, as much as 69 for others

I wanna know in what base 42 equals thirty-seven. Can anyone help me with this?

​@@cameroncorrado3935this wasn't particularly difficult. its base (35/4) or base 8.75

Make sense

Right? There is some logic to the 'feeling' more random. So it shows up more in art. The rest is just selection bias.

THIS COMMENT HAS 37 LIKES LOL

@@Jimmyhendrix234this whole study is so arbitrary. ATHF has a bit about this in their hundredth episode. If you hyper fixate on any one number, you’ll find it everywhere.

i get stuck on 88s

Like the fact that he excluded the first and last numbers. Like, people chose those, why exactly are they being excluded?

Same lol

37 likes 😮

73 likes

Same lol

14 hr later it's still #37 trending

any number which is multiple of 10101 is divisible by 37 as
10101= 3x7x13x37
to simplify
a number of pattern
"ABABAB" is divisible by 37
where A and B can be same.
and this trick works for A,B ranging from 1 to 99
after that I don't know

Right? Why even show that segment

​@@divyanshuryuzaki1510I figured it out.
37|10101
37|111
Take 352684, subtract 35•10101.
We get -851.
Add 8•111.
We get 37.
It is divisible by 37.
Or, alternatively, for any number just say that it is not divisibe by 37 and you'll be right in 36/37 of cases. Very computationally efficient.

37 likes on this comment as of me writing this.

It's on his website
The method:
Divide the number up in groups of three digits, starting from the right. (The left-most group may not have three digits.)
Add the groups together.
If the result is still longer than three digits, repeat steps 1 and 2.
When you finish this you have a three-digit (or smaller) number which can be quickly examined for divisibility by 37. The original number is divisible by 37 if and only if this three-digit number is.
For short numbers:
For one-digit and two-digit numbers, it's pretty trivial: the only ones divisible by 37 are 37 and 74. For three-digit numbers what I do is compare the number to a nearby multiple of 37 -- in particular, a nearby multiple of 111. For example, 291 differs from 222 by 69, and 69 is not divisible by 37, so 291 is not divisible by 37. On the other hand, 925 differs from 999 by 74, so 925 is divisible by 37.