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Prime Numbers

How much smaller should our homes be made? It’s the week in numbers

Plus: What’s the most tax complaint county in Ireland.

EVERY SATURDAY ON TheJournal.ie we bring you a selection of the statistics and numerical nuggets to help you digest the week that has just passed.

42%: The number of Irish people who have sex at least once a week.

433,000: The number of listeners to Ireland’s most listened to radio show, Morning Ireland.

968 million: The number of average daily users of Facebook.

7: The number of Irish academics who signed a petition by some of the world’s top scientists against the development of AI weaponry.

20%: The proposed reduction in the minimum size of an apartment in Dublin.

65: The number of tax offences in Kilkenny in the last 12 years, the fewest of anywhere in the country.

1,000: The number of guitarists who banded together to play one song, Foo Fighters’ Learn To Fly, all together.

€200,000: The bonus a Turkish CEO gave to each of his employees after his company was sold to a German rival.

60,000: The number of new homes that Ireland is going to need between now and 2017.

$5 billion: The valuation being placed on Stripe, the online payments company set up by two Irish brothers.

60: The number of prisoners involved in a riot at Cloverhill in west Dublin.

150: The number of years a judge said the Irish Times and The Times have ‘co-existed peacefully’. Both newspapers faced off in court this week.

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