i mean whats so special about the # 10 why not 15?? or 20?
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Nothing special about five, it could have been four or six.  But what is amazing is that almost all four-limbed creatures have five digits on each limb.  (This is called 'pentadactyly', by the way.)  This includes primates, dogs, cats (don't forget the dew claw), wings of bats and birds, crocodiles, even whales(!).   Even horses hooves develop from one of five toes in the embryonic horse.\n\nWhy is this?  Because all four-limbed creatures developed from the same five-toed ancestor.  Yet another little piece of evidence for evolution to add to the pile.\n\nOh, one other little tidbit ... it's because we have 10 fingers that we developed a base-10 numbering system (that's why we call the 10 symbols we use in our system 'digits' (fingers), and where we get the word 'digital').
582380
shouldn't it be 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
193418
the words for the numbers 1 through 19 are among the oldest words in the language. The rules for numeration had not been made when the words were invented. You will find that in most languages at least the lower "teen" numbers, 11, 12, 13, 14 and even 15 have special words to describe them. Some languages have special words for up to 20. This is because in earlier times, counting only went up to a certain number and after that, the amount was considered "many" or "countless." It didn't matter much if there were 45 deer or 62 to hunt, because just one would feed the tribe that night. But it might matter if there were 7 lions or 14 to avoid, so those numbers were invented.\nThese examples I just made up; they aren't definitive, but I think you can see how they may illustrate what probably happened.
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reason 1 >>> its the power of genetics.\nreason 2 >>> there is do much to choose from.\nreason 3 >>> men r still under development\nreason 4 >>> its same in cars, u just want a new model\nreason 5 >>> men get outdated fast.\nreason 6 >>> i can just go on like this for ever.\nreason 7 >>> it could be some kind of status symbol.\nreason 8 >>> high class women usually have low class brain(personal experience)\nreason 9 >>> they r easy to trick (yep again).\nreason10>>> wow ur still reading this!\nreason11>>> i have hypnotized then into doing this.\nreason12>>> girls just wanna have fun ooo girls just wanna have fun!
388748
whats wrong with mj's number?, whatever, i would go with 20
6401
I'm afraid it has to be 20-20
623094
a 20 and a10 ones not but the other is ?
331674
because 12 would be too few and 14 too many?
479678
I have a better idea. Why not include olympics into 20-20?
157247
because mathematically speaking +2 is a larger value than \n-2 and people like things with positive value better than things with a negative value.  so thanks for the points
475087
Well, why is the number 18 in Latin pronounced duodeviginti (2 down from 20), instead of octodecim (following the pattern of the numbers from 11-17)? Same goes for Spanish, but with different wording.\n\nAlso, then why in Chinese do we not say one ten (and) three for 13 instead of ten (and) three, but we say one hundred one ten three for 113? (translated for your benefit)\n\nThere's just something in the etymology of the numbers that dictate it that way. (The others have the explanations of the specific etymology of the number 11)
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The number is too small for a real "pattern" to emerge.\nThe digits could be the first 10 values of some sequence given by some ( many ) recurrence relation, could be ...\n\nIn order for a proper pattern to emerge, it should be much larger...
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You should push yourself to do more than 10-15. Maybe start with 20 and work your way up each day.  You should be able to feel it!!
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It's number 15.\n\nBy definition, a composite number is a positive integer  which is not prime (i.e., which has factors other than 1 and itself). \n\nTherefore, the first few composite numbers (sometimes called "composites" for short) are 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, ... They're the numbers with factors other than one and itself. \n\n2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, ... are not included in the set because their factors are limited to only the number 1 and theirselves. That's why they are prime numbers.\n\nNote that by strict interpretation, it's impossible to determine the highest composite numbers since there are an infinite number of composite numbers. I just started from the smallest composite number and counted eight slots upwards.\n\nAlso note that the number 1 is a special case which is considered to be neither composite nor prime. That's why I haven't included 1 in the 8th.
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Yep, they are different on a ten key adding machine also. They did this back when buttons on phones were just coming out, the technology was slow, and they were afraid that accountants and people who worked with adding machines all day, would be able to dial to fast, and confuse the system. So they arranged the numbers in a reverse order to slow folks down.
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how is it 28 when i counted 10?
656994
Yes, 10 - 15 is about right.  Although it depends on the person--how they are built and where the weight comes off.