I don't usually just make an entry for a link, but The Secret Lives of Numbers is really fascinating. It's basically a histogram of the popularity of the first 100000 integers, popularity being defined as the number of hits returned by a web search engine.
For highly popular integers, there's a list of associations, reflecting the things people tend to look for on the web: highly popular #2 associates with "Diablo 2", "Mission Impossible 2", "Playstation 2", and "World War 2". There's a 1-D histogram, integer on the Y, popularity as a line in the X, which incidentally has nice autoscaling behavior, but possibly more interesting is the 2-D histogram showing 1000 rows of 100 dots, popularity shown as dot brightness. There's a regularity to it, with strong verticals every 10 units, stronger verticals at 50 and 100, a definite gradient every 1000 units, a diagonal representing the multiples of 101 (some of them product numbers like Olympus 3030, Teltone M-8888).
A striking exponential gradient leaps out as you approach 2000, reflecting the denser availability of historical data as you approach the current day — and the explosion of the web itself in 1994. Individual pixel hotspots leap out at the eye: some explained by checking the associations, like 8859 (ISO 8859, a character set specification), some unexplained like 9551 or 8791. The technologies we're all obsessed with leave their marks — a short horizontal streak of warm spots starting at 8080, hot at 8086 and 8088 shows one era of Intel, while a vertical streak from 80286 to 80486 shows another.
Once into the five-digit numbers, American geography plays a role, with some ZIP codes showing up hot in on a generally cooler field than the 4-digit number.
Round binaries get hotspots, and some of their neighbors: 32767, 32768, 65535, 65536, of course, being the most important numbers in the 16-bit world — as well as being significant to residents of Leasburg and Lebanon, MO. But 16384 spikes, along with its successors 16385 and 16386, which is a little surprising. A bit down the road, 16391 through 16394 are inexplicably hot. Lundy's Lane, PA, a city I've never heard of, boosts 16401 — maybe the result of a web-conscious city chamber of commerce? A string of Washington, DC ZIP codes brightens the 20000 line — surely more mail goes to Washington than any other city in the nation. Maryland and Virginia are heavily represented here as well.
And still those streaks every 10 pixels on both axes, reflecting our preference for round numbers. Chicago and suburbs cluster around 60600. A string of bright standouts at the intersections of a thousand-line and a ten-line turn out to be the Macintosh processors — 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040. Texas populates the 75000 line. A chain of hot odd numbers from 81667 to 81679 is unexplained in the associations, but turn out to be postal codes for München, Germany. The 94000s are speckled with the cities of the San Francisco peninsula, naturally.
I could look at these all night.
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