Why did I like that number? It looks nice. It has lots of zeros (well, three). Because it's a small multiple of 1000, which is quite a big number in its own right. Because we have ten fingers (I guess) we count in multiples of 10 and 2000 marks the completion of two lots of 103. Eight more batches of 1000 and we'll reach 104. Of course if I lived among a tiny isolated community of mutants who all had six fingers on their left hands I might count in multiples of 11 and then 2000 wouldn't be such an interesting number (unless it was actually written in base 11, i.e. 2×113 = 2662. Some way to go until my 11-fingered cousins, residents possibly of Innsmouth, get excited).
The world got very excited at the dawn of the year 2000 for, to be honest, the same sorts of fairly arbitrary reasons melded with the human significance of the calendar (plus the added spice of the Millennium Bug).
Could 2000 be a more interesting number than it looks, even to people with different numbers of fingers? As an even number it is obviously not prime. The nearest prime numbers would be 1999 or 2003. I think I'll get much more excited when we reach 2003 views. And 1999 is sort of amusing; it means that the number 2000 equals a prime number plus one.
As a product of prime numbers it is 24×53; no sudden new interest obvious there. I do like it that writing it this way involves the numbers 2,3,4,5 although it's not the only number of which this is true. Should I get equally excited about 2025 (34×52), 2592 (25×34), 3888 (24×35), 5000 (23×54) or 5625 (32×54) views? I like 3888, same sort of pattern as 2000 only with different digits.
Any other reasons I should be happy to see 2000 views?
Merry Xmas!
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