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Topic: Favorite number
Posted By: JJLehto
Subject: Favorite number
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 19:58
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Mine has to be infinity minus 1 Try to wrap your head around it |
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Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:01
| I chose 11. You don't think about it a lot, so when you do, it feels a little more special than the others. |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:03
Mine's five, but my second is eleven. Honest.  ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
N-sz wrote:Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:04
That's still infinity.  My favorite number is 2xinfinity.  ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:11
Alright, I'm gonna trust you on this one   Andy, I believe it's pronounced TWO Infinity and Beyond! : D |
Posted By: Smurph
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:20
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Numbers are only a representation. If everyone was used to using base 14, but 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 had different symbols, so that you only reached double digits when you hit 14 instead of 10. So the number 14 would look like 10. And 28 would look like 20. And 27 would look like 1(symbolfor13). So my favorite number is the only real number. Zero. I say this all with a grin too. But since I can't vote for zero, I'm gonna go with 5. Because it just feels right to say 5 and think in 5s. Plus I love to break 5, 10, 15, and 20 down into smaller prime subgroups in composition.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:21
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I've always had a thing for 7. I can see the appeal of 3 because of all those curves though... 5 has a nice blend of both. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:25
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I've always said my favorite number is zero. It's the one number you can always count on. I just hope Equality doesn't come in and ask me to explain why. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:32
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10. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 20:45
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You left out my favorite number. My second favorite is 6. ------------- 
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 21:01
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42? ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 21:07
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42 would of course be included in the 23.2 to infinity option |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 21:20
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But it should get it's own option simply out of honor. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 21:51
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0 And yes, it's actually no number but I like it. -------------
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 21:57
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-2 ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 22:06
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1973
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 22:10
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666 -------------
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Posted By: Morningrise
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 23:23
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: May 01 2012 at 23:44
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12 has always been my favorite. Don't know why. ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 01:30
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6. Since I was a kid it was my favorite. Probably that's because all the fun stuff was on the sixth channel (now STS) in St.-Petersburg. 2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 03:04
Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number! As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone? |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 09:31
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9 and 27 (but that's 9+9+9), because I give too much importance to my birthday (while still cursing my existence in every other regard). ------------- 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 09:51
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You missed infinitely many numbers not on this list :( Euler's number would probably be my favorite followed closely by the squareroot of 2. If we're talking integers, before I studied math it was 11. I enjoyed the primality and the symmetry. It's also cool how it's an iterative number of the multiplicative identity. Since studying it, I've found 11 can be kind of boring, but I guess I'll still say it's 11. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 09:52
He's also missing rational numbers. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 09:53
Why would you say zero? Please explain. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 09:55
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None of the above. But from this list I prefer 17, followed by 5 and 2. ------------- 
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 10:11
 It's a nice round number, look at that: 0 I analyze numbers and data for a living. It's hard to explain, but that number seems to come in handy more than any other. Plus, tack it on the end of any number, and it will multiply it by ten, for added pizazz. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 10:23
Yeah, that's what I meant by 'dirty dozen', and if that and 'unlucky number' are not synonymous, then I apologize. That's exactly what I meant - an unlucky number. Besides, I was born on 13th of March ...
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 10:56
You should have said something cool like it makes solving quadratic equations possible :( ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 11:46
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^ Fine, on behalf of Steve I will say: " It makes solving quadratic equations possible .. ."
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Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 11:55
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42 because it's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List 
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 12:06
| ^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die? |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 12:34
Indeed, but as I said "when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?" Also, my guess is there are tons of numbers I don't even know about, so they'd be excluded just out of ignorance. |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 12:41
What do you get if you multiply six by nine? ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 12:45
There probably are, but in our standard Real number system ration and irrational together would cover anything. He's missing imaginary too, but since the idea of a number is so general he's missing more things than we could even talking about. I just assumed he was narrowing his attention to the Reals. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 12:56
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Who's "he" btw? If you mean the poll creator that was of course me. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:03
Where is Pi? 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:13
Ha I thought textbook made it since he makes threads for everything. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:17
Understood. I made these last 2 to mock him actually |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:19
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^ I would say mission accomplished.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 13:22
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Well, also curious what people would say. I'm a little let down by the lack of 22/4 and etc |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 14:17
I'm nowhere near that cool, sorry. I was actually thinking of saying something about calculus and rates of change, but figured I'd say something dumb and you'd catch it. I can BS my friends, but you're a Math guy. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 16:31
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0 I believe we Westerners owe the Arabs for giving us that number. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 16:43
I would just think you're dumb; I wouldn't say it. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 16:45
The Arabs did not give us that number. The Arabs gave us the symbol zero as a placeholder. Indian mathematicians first used the number as an actual number. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:32
Yeah, that's right, where is the gravitational constant G = 6.67*... ?
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:42
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34 for me, been my number in practically every sport I've played. Paul Pierce's number too. :D ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:43
54
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:46
Incorrect. Seriously It's 42 I thought we all knew  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:48
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I don't have a favourite number, or a lucky number or a prefered number. When I was younger (4 or 5) I wanted 4 to be my lucky number as it was my month of birth, but I soon realised it was no more or less lucky than any other number so it soon lost any significance.
I like this number because 2/√2 = √2 and ½√2 = √½ = 1/√2 = cos(π/4) = sin(π/4) and ISO paper sizes are based on it... and many other reasons, such as it is the ratio of peak to RMS for a sine wave and the f-stops on a camera lens and the tritone interval in the twelve-tone musical scale (the semitone note interval is the 1/12 root of 2).
The golden ratio is pretty neat too. ------------- What? |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:50
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All reality, I always did like 7 No idea why |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:58
Where did you come up with that?
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 18:59
Well I didn't come up with it...it's just the truth. "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" I'm sure you're a fine lad but honestly, I'm a tad disappointed in you now  |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:05
 ------------- What? |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:06
| And still no one to mourn about the absence of our favourite fraction, 7/8? |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:16
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^ Ha! ... I know someone came up with another favorite fraction - 6/6 - the time of the devil. Speaking of which ... I can't remember anyone mentioning the significance of 1. A number used in binary math. You divide a number by itself, you get 1. Hm.
How? 9*3 = 27 27*2 = 54. Is 42 some kind of "blind truth" ? I don't get it. Could you please expand on it? ] [
And Dean, man, sorry, I just don't see it. Is there a clue somewhere on the image or something? Am I blind?
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:20
....are you a "math person" by chance? |
Posted By: dtguitarfan
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 19:33
Oh my gosh, at first I was disappointed that someone told him what to look up, because I thought we could've kept it going and had fun with it...but this makes up for that!  ------------- http://tinyurl.com/cy43zzh" rel="nofollow - My 2012 List
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:08
I was a math person in the Formal Geometry class in high school. Now that I'm in the Computer Science 365 class, not so much. To sum up, the answer is 'no'. But you have to be careful: What's 1+1 ?
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:29
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Well, regardless the confusion should be settled. At least where I got it from....you'd need to dig deeper still to truly get 42 edit: 1+1? Well, 1+1 = 11 so clearly, 11! |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:31
^ Oh, so I have to do research ?  ... [rushing to the bathroom].BTW: 11? Nein. It's 10.
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:33
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Seriously, Dayv, if you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy and its sequels, do yourself a favor. Or see the BBC TV series. Or hunt down the BBC radio series. Avoid the movie tho. *would vote for 42 were it an option* ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:38
I was gunna say this is research you want to do, but I've been beaten to the punch. Also lol you best be trolling... I believe 42 would fall in the "23.2 to infinity (please specify)" range Goodness PA, I can't believe literally everything needs to be spelled out like this |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:46
I will look into it. Translation: never (granted that I always try to come up with an open window for other things.)
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:49
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9082.178 ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: ole-the-first
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 20:56
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'39 ------------- This night wounds time. |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 21:56
Google gives me all sorts of results. Why that number?
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Posted By: Ambient Hurricanes
Date Posted: May 02 2012 at 22:06
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i ------------- I love dogs, I've always loved dogs |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 07:51
I was wondering how long before somebody made a lame binary joke. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 07:52
People might be confused by your use of infinity as a bounded, finite number. Perhaps saying >=23.2 would have been more illuminating. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 10:02
Out of curiosity: ... [scratching my head] ... why is it lame?
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 10:52
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Want a nerd answer or a regular answer? The regular answer would be that all binary jokes are lame. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 11:08
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42 for obvious reasons. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 11:47
| 11 is my choice. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 11:56
Fair point. Alas, I can't go back now. Lord knows I can't change. |
Posted By: The Neck Romancer
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 12:25
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3 because triangles ------------- 
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 12:31
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------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: N-sz
Date Posted: May 03 2012 at 13:20
| See, I just knew there was something about 11. So easy to forget about it, but once you think about it, it's really a good number. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 11:09
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4. It must be 4. ------------- |
Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 12:03
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27 Although 4 is a very good choice. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 12:07
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22 is MY number, nobody else pick it.
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Posted By: Morsenator
Date Posted: May 13 2012 at 12:44
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yep, 42 it is
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Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 11:13
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Well I'd like to say it's 42 because the Hitchhiker's guide <3. But in all honesty it's 3. I love 3. When something is divisible by 3 I'm a happier person. Also 7 is cool. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 16:19
| ^ 3 is frequently used in Russian literature: 33 bogatyrya (warriors), three wishes fulfilled by the Goldfish for the old fisherman, etc. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: May 14 2012 at 19:05
7 is cool for a couple reasons. Songs that are in 7 are more fun to listen to than songs in 4 or 6. And if you divide any number by 7, if it isn't evenly divisible, you always get the repeating sequence 142857 after the decimal point - starting with any of them but always repeating them in the same sequence. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: May 15 2012 at 03:24
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^ it's also a very common number in Ancient Greece, and the Bible, and probably more cultures. Along with 3, 12 and others. But 12 sucks. Anybody who likes 12 is probably a Satanist. No real Satanist actually like 6 or 13, only mainstream Satanists. ------------- There be dragons |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: May 15 2012 at 18:56
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(Merka nombeer) One. -------------   
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