If you approach someone on the street and ask them what their favourite number is—of all the entire numbers between 1 and 100—nearly 10% will respond "7." These were the results of mathematician Alex Bellos, who asked respondents to choose their favourite number and discovered that "7" was the most frequent answer. It was picked 9.7% of the time.
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