Today's post is brought to you by the magic numbers 3 and 1.

The number three is given importance in a number of places.  In Christianity's Holy Trinity, for instance.  The Three Jewels of Buddhism.  3 is a lucky number in China, and in Vietnam it is considered unlucky to take a picture with exactly three people in it.  Three on a match?  Don't do it!  But. . . third time's a charm.

We have 3 strikes in baseball, a 3-point shot in basketball, the three-success hat trick in hockey.  And when a team wins a championship three times in a row, it's a threepeat.

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