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Minor quibble, interesting info :
"like expecting the orbits of the planets to be in the same proportion as the first 9 prime numbers or something. That which is produced by a complex, messy, random process is unlikely to have some low complexity description"
The particular example of the planet's orbit is actually one where such a simple rule exists : see the law of Titius Bode