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Old 2010-03-27, 08:24   #1
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Default Most common month for people to join this forum?

So, what month has the greatest number of new registered users? I'm new here, but I can't find any statistic on when people are most likely to join this forum. I'm guessing it's January - the month has a long 31 days, the cold will encourage people to stay indoors and go online instead of going outside, and the start of a new year and the end of the busy holiday season means less stress and more time checking websites like this.

Any other guesses?
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Old 2010-03-27, 12:37   #2
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So, what month has the greatest number of new registered users? I'm new here, but I can't find any statistic on when people are most likely to join this forum. I'm guessing it's January - the month has a long 31 days, the cold will encourage people to stay indoors and go online instead of going outside, and the start of a new year and the end of the busy holiday season means less stress and more time checking websites like this.

Any other guesses?
After a new Mersenne prime has been discovered...

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Old 2010-03-27, 12:48   #3
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After a new Mersenne prime has been discovered...

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Assuming this is true, this would most likely point to November. This is the list of months when Mersenne primes were discovered, (counting M42643801 as June instead of April, since that's when it was noticed by humans) sorted by the month, and including duplicates:
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January
February
May
June
June
August
August
September
September
November
November
November
December
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Old 2010-03-27, 13:10   #4
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From 2009, the number of users who registered each month were:
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Jan 72
Feb 61
Mar 73
Apr 95
May 79
Jun 50 <-- M42643801 noticed by humans
Jul 84
Aug 99
Sep 101
Oct 91
Nov 112
Dec 78
Some of these are guesses because users have been deleted, and these figures include spammers and users who have never logged on since they registered.
Notice the drop (!) in registrations in June when the Mersenne prime was noticed.

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Old 2010-03-27, 14:47   #5
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This page has been comprehensively rewritten.
I was looking for the story about whether the computer
or the reader discovered some prime first.

David

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXCzKWm9yo

Sorry, wrong link, but it's so good I won't delete it.

I meant this:
http://primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html

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