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    Posted: March 19 2008 at 20:39
The real question: what do you get out of polls here? Surely they're a device to prompt discussion, because they're no fun on their own...

EXPLAIN THIS TO ME. ;P
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 20:54
Do you mean number as a mathematical object or should I also think of the sign for that number? Either way, it's impossible for me to choose, so I vote for other (don't explain), despite the fact that I just kind of explained.

To answer your real question, some polls are fun on their own, this one isn't. Stern%20Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:01
 
One is the loneliest number
That you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one
(One - Aimee Mann)
... E N E L B U N K E R...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:10
^ That is actually a Three Dog Night song. 
 
3 is a pretty good band, and was Dale Earnhardt's number, so it is a pretty decent number.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:16
The imaginary unit, i, equal to the square root of negative one, is most definitely my favorite number.  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:30
25 or Six to 4.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:35
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:



^ That is actually a Three Dog Night song. 
 


^ That is actually a Harry Nilsson song that Three Dog Night made famous.  Geek



"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:35
"numbers add up to nuthin..."
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 21:36
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Do you mean number as a mathematical object or should I also think of the sign for that number? Either way, it's impossible for me to choose, so I vote for other (don't explain), despite the fact that I just kind of explained.

To answer your real question, some polls are fun on their own, this one isn't. Stern%20Smile


it doesn't have to be a number - it could equally be an amount or a digit
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 22:24
Originally posted by ClemofNazareth ClemofNazareth wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:



^ That is actually a Three Dog Night song. 
 


^ That is actually a Harry Nilsson song that Three Dog Night made famous.  Geek



 
I probably knew that at one point in my life, but the memory did fail me.  Thanks for the correction.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 19 2008 at 22:25
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 07:29
Where's pi?
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 07:32
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Where's pi?
 
Or the price of a pie? Can we get a pie for approximately $3.14?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 08:02
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Where's pi?
 
Or the price of a pie? Can we get a pie for approximately $3.14?


Of course not!

$3.99 or $3.88, which probably is one of the things that explains why there is something fundamentally wrong with the universe.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 08:03
Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

The real question: what do you get out of polls here? Surely they're a device to prompt discussion, because they're no fun on their own...

EXPLAIN THIS TO ME. ;P


I think you need to refer to my poll on this or that.  You will find all the answers you seek.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 18:12
Originally posted by laplace laplace wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Do you mean number as a mathematical object or should I also think of the sign for that number? Either way, it's impossible for me to choose, so I vote for other (don't explain), despite the fact that I just kind of explained.

To answer your real question, some polls are fun on their own, this one isn't. Stern%20Smile


it doesn't have to be a number - it could equally be an amount or a digit


How could it be an amount? Is it really possible to have a favourite amount? Let's pretend for a while that my favourite amount is five. This means that I very much enjoy seeing and imagining groups of five objects. Groups of five objects have a mysteriously uplifting effect on me, while groups of four or six objects don't. I can test this by thinking of lemonade bottles. First I have in my mind an image of a solitary lemonade bottle. Needless to say it needs a friend. So I add one lemonade bottle in the image. Two bottles feels kind of disturbing, so I add a third one. Three bottles is nice, but the image still doesn't impress me much. Four bottles is almost worse than two. But five! Imagining five lemonade bottles is an unexplainably stunning experience. I can repeat the same experiment with apples and come to the conclusion that my favourite amount is five.

So my favourite amount is five. One might think that it pleases me to see a group of five objects, no matter what the objects are. But this is clearly not the case. What if I tried to imagine five South Park characters? There's Cartman, Kenny, Kyle and Stan, and some fifth guy. It could be Chef. It could be Mr Garrison. Whoever it is, I think it's clear that he (or she) is a bit of an outsider. If I had an image of the four main characters + some random guy, I think it's obvious that I'd like to get rid of the fifth character and have a more perfect image with just four characters. Should this mean that my favourite amount is four? No! Remember what happened with the lemonade bottles and the apples! My favourite amount could be five or four, depending on the objects related to that amount.

Does this necessarily mean that I don't have a favourite amount per se? Perhaps not. I could say that in most cases I enjoy groups of five objects, so my favourite amount is five. Maybe I've imagined several groups of objects and come to think that almost every time five objects is the perfect amount. But shouldn't I also take into account all the types of objects I haven't thought of? If I consider all the objects I know, if I make a list of them and notice that five is my favourite amount in almost all of the cases, I could say that my favourite amount is five. But what if someone asks me: "Have you thought of monocles? Have you thought of Antikythera machines?" I would have to reply that in those cases my favourite amount is one, not five. If offered enough examples I would have to say that my favourite amount is in fact one, not five. Now, should I say that my favourite amount has changed, or that my favourite amount has been one all along, that it was a mistake of me to think it was five? If I do have a favourite amount that remains the same through all my life, wouldn't I have to think of all possible objects to know for sure what this favourite amount is? Since this is clearly impossible I'm forced to conclude that either I don't have a favourite amount at all, or that I do have a favourite amount, but it's impossible for me to know what it is.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 18:16
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Do you mean number as a mathematical object or should I also think of
the sign for that number? Either way, it's impossible for me to choose,
so I vote for other (don't explain), despite the fact that I just kind of explained.





To answer your real question, some polls are fun on their own, this one isn't. Stern%20Smile


agree
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 18:42
It all boils down to numbers and little teeny-weeny particles I can't see, but somehow I sense their presence.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 18:47
Originally posted by rileydog22 rileydog22 wrote:

The imaginary unit, i, equal to the square root of negative one, is most definitely my favorite number.  


Have you been reading Yvengeny Zamyatin's We, perchance?  He's always go on about the square route of minus 1.  As I'm not a mathematician and I have no clue what that equations means... the whole part of that story was lost on me.

Would you be so kind and explain it to me?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 20 2008 at 18:48
My favourite number is 56.
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