Which number in JPOD?

Question

I have come up to the THIRTY pages of prime numbers in JPOD by Douglas Coupland, and am stuck. Can anyone please give me the number which is the odd one out.

Answer 1

I'd tell you and then I'd have thirty million people who would want to kill both of us. :-)

Here a little something from a Coupland interview:

In your novels you’ve printed out the 8,363 prime numbers between 10,000 and 100,000 as well as the 972 three-letter words permitted in scrabble and pi to a hundred-thousand digits. Do you expect your readers actually spend time looking over them?
I expect them to look at the numbers and words the way they might look at a Warhol canvas, just enjoy the multiplicity and muchness of it all. I love abundance. Words don’t just have to be words, and images don’t just have to be images. I love replication. I love mass culture. Enjoy it! The world’s a ******* brilliant place to live in. And if younger readers look at these words and images, I hope they’ll go to the library’s Art section and take out a pile of books and begin a lifelong adventure. Back in 1995 with Microserfs, I did two spreads that were nothing but the words ‘money’ and ‘machine’ and this embittered reviewer said that they were nothing more than ‘craven autobiography,’ and attempts to fill space, but I thought that is was simply a nice Warhol tribute to have people see the words and think of Andy and of a fresh new way of seeing and loving the culture we live in.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure there isn't an extra number.

There are 470 numbers / page for the first 17 pages and the last page has 373 numbers. That's 8363 numbers, which is also the number of primes between 10,000 and 100,000. You'd expect to find 8364 numbers listed if there was an extra one inserted. There maybe some formatting that messes up the counting though.

What a jerk!

Answer 3

Why would you want to know?