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Tell HN: Google any three numbers followed by “new cases” (b'') similar stories update story
7 points by bishalb | karma 130 | avg karma 0.94 2020-06-23 13:06:14 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments

Interesting that there is a coronavirus new cases news for any 3 digit number and most of them are from the past 10 days.


view as:

"000 new cases"

Checkmate.


Negative numbers don’t work either, naturally.

I tried to find a counterexample but there doesn't seem to be one. Fun observation.

Makes sense though when you think of the each city, and county, and state are required to report their numbers daily and those numbers can be accessible to the public. Factor in that every news station is constantly updating the numbers, The probability that a story would pop up on google with “any three numbers followed by new cases” is quite high. You factor in Our population too. Yeah, it actually makes sense to me. ¯\_(?)_/¯

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