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Intuition behind salient numbers in number of h-cobordism classes of smooth homotopy n-spheres
The Wikipedia article on Exotic Sphere displays this sequence of numbers (see also OEIS A001676 and the Milnor link therein) for the order of the classses as
$$1, \;1, \;1,\; 1,\; 1, \;1, \;28,\; 2,\; ...