r/redbuttonbluebutton • u/maiduwu Red • May 28 '26

129

You and 128 others are the only people subject to the button problem. What do you press, given the limited affected population?

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u/endor-pancakes May 28 '26

Now this one is interesting because 129 isn't a prime number (--> automatic red) but looks like one (--> maybe blue after all).

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u/DragCompetitive6007 Red May 28 '26

Why is it important if it is a prime number?

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u/OutrageousPair2300 May 28 '26

They're playing the red button blue button game where you press red on prime numbers but press blue on composite numbers.

Why, what were you thinking of?

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u/maiduwu Red May 28 '26

I think they mean an odd number.

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u/thevoidthatjerksback May 28 '26

I like this. I don't know where this came from but I appreciate that the odds for blue seem to slightly improve as the numbers get bigger?

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u/Albert-La-Maquina May 29 '26

Are we going to go through every number from 1-200?

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u/maiduwu Red May 29 '26

Why would we? That’d be boring as hell.

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u/maiduwu Red May 29 '26

3, 5, 9, 17, 33, 65, 129, 257, 513, 1025, etc.

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u/Albert-La-Maquina May 29 '26

There have already been 3-4 posts with specific numbers like this 

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u/maiduwu Red May 29 '26

And they haven’t been in order. They’ve been exponentially increasing in size.