Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Amazon should've made Prime Day fall on a date corresponding to an actual three-digit prime number. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by booly@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should've done 7/19 instead.

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[–] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Back in the olden days before digital calculators, people had tricks like that to help them do mental math.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

😂 I'm familiar with many of them because I liked math in school and went through all of primary and middle school without a digital calculator. This one is one I hadn't heard of before and, again because I like math, I'm interested in understanding 1) what the trick is and 2) mathematically how it works out