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3 is my 11 year old grandson’s favorite number.
Mine, too.
I’m unsure exactly why.
Maybe because it’s because it’s a prime number.
I recall reading the 2003 Mark Haddon mystery novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” and being struck by how the various chapters were all numbered prime numbers.
Any book like that couldn’t be all bad.
And it wasn’t.
But there are other prime numbers, and they’re not favorites.
It takes a minimum of 3 to make a series.
With 3 things, you get to insert commas.
That’s not the case with 2, when you merely insert a conjunction ‘and.’
No fun punctuation.
3 people are more interesting in a photo than 2, in general.
Although romantics will argue for 2.
For them, 3 is probably a crowd.
3 isn’t necessarily more logical, but it is more pleasing to the eye than 2.
From composition class I recall a picture is more interesting if it’s divided into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, and the object of interest is placed at the intersection of those lines of thirds.
The first Saul, in our stream of history, is the most recent.
I didn’t know him that well, and perhaps that’s my loss.
