37

In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, they say that 42 is the meaning of the universe but we object!!!! 37 has so many more practical applications and brilliant tricks. I have deemed it way better than 42. In fact, I dub it the BEST NUMBER IN THE UNIVERSE!!! Here are some facts about it.
#It is a prime number, the fifth lucky prime, the first irregular prime, the third unique prime and the third cuban prime of the form.
#It is a factor of all 3-digit base 10 repdigits, such as 111. 37 is the smallest prime that is not also a supersingular prime. It is a centred hexagonal number and a star number.
#37 and 38 are the first pair of consecutive positive integers not divisible by any of their digits.
#Every positive integer is the sum of at most 37 fifth powers.
#37 appears in the Padovan Sequence, preceded by the terms 16, 21, and 28 (it is the sum of the first two of these).
#Since the greatest prime factor of 372 + 1 = 1370 is 137, which is obviously more than 37 twice, 37 is a Stormer Number.
#37 is the only two digit number in base 10 whose product, when multiplied by two, subtracted by one, and then read backwards, equals the original two digit number: 37×2=74, 74-1=73, 73 backwards is 37.
#37 is the only two digit number in base 10 with the following property: The difference between the two digits equals the square root of the difference between the number itself and the least common multiple of the two digits.
#It is the number of plays that William Shakespeare wrote (counting Henry IV as 3 parts)
#If you pick any number between 1 and 9 and x3 x37 you get the number three times over.
#It is the average person's body temperature.
#It is the atomic number of rubidium.
#Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
#37% of its full size is the automatic amount that the window opens in publisher when opened from a file.
#The Hidenburg took 37 seconds to burn in 1937
#9/11 happened in the 37th week of the year 2001.
#​There are 37 bars in the digits on a digital watch.
#666 is divisible by 37.
#The boiling point of water goes down by 37% on the top of Mt Everest.
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