Op-Ed Contributor - The Magical Properties of Everyday Numbers - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Ryan Catalani on 18 Oct 10"A physicist named M. F. M. Osborne noticed that stock prices tended to cluster around numbers ending in zero and five. Why? Well, on the one hand, most people have five fingers, and on the other hand, most people have five more. [...] As it turns out, in well over 100 languages, the words that denote bigness are made with bigger sounds."