Top Ten numbers
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Leo
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i have some favorite numbers, many related to following sports as a kid. in no particular order:
714 (babe ruth career home runs)
63 (longest US football field goal by Saints' kicker Tom Dempsey, in yards)
7 (just like the way it looks, also number worn by Red Sox outfielder Reggie Smith)
12 (NY Jets' Joe Namath, as well as numerous other great quarterbacks)
666 (obvious)
69 (ditto)
714 (babe ruth career home runs)
63 (longest US football field goal by Saints' kicker Tom Dempsey, in yards)
7 (just like the way it looks, also number worn by Red Sox outfielder Reggie Smith)
12 (NY Jets' Joe Namath, as well as numerous other great quarterbacks)
666 (obvious)
69 (ditto)
hmg
Victory lap
I have synaesthetic responses to some numbers
27 - beige yellow, slender
95 - round, red white and blue
8 - green, a postbox
12 - a coin spinning to a stop, increasing in frequency
9 - biting into a white bread and coal sandwich
38 - an overstuffed green leather badger
That kind of thing.
27 - beige yellow, slender
95 - round, red white and blue
8 - green, a postbox
12 - a coin spinning to a stop, increasing in frequency
9 - biting into a white bread and coal sandwich
38 - an overstuffed green leather badger
That kind of thing.
Leo
Well-known member
i also like 9. as with 7, i like it visually, i like the balance of it.
but it also seems vaguely heroic, representing the last step before succumbing to all the multi-digit numbers. it's teetering on the edge, mindful of the threshold, the final holdout making the valiant last stand of the single digit tribe.
am i projecting?
but it also seems vaguely heroic, representing the last step before succumbing to all the multi-digit numbers. it's teetering on the edge, mindful of the threshold, the final holdout making the valiant last stand of the single digit tribe.
am i projecting?
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
A friend of mine once had a dream about him doing precisely this, which I think then regressed even further in a way that is unimaginable to the waking mind. I'm not sure he's been the same since.
Kaprekar's constant is remarkable, and making my mind ache.
Leo
Well-known member
holy crap, that has to be #1 in the top 10.
hmg
Victory lap
it's pi but doesn't show up very well in this font
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
i and 1729 (the Ramanujan taxicab number) definitely need to be in there...
Also Graham's number, which is (or used to be) the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof. The observable universe is far too small to contain a digital representation of it, even if the size of each digit goes down to the Planck length. The discoverer pretty much had to invent a new system of notation just to write it down. It was, at the time, the best proveable upper bound on the possible values of a quantity in graph theory for which no-one has yet found a concrete example greater than 13.
Also Graham's number, which is (or used to be) the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof. The observable universe is far too small to contain a digital representation of it, even if the size of each digit goes down to the Planck length. The discoverer pretty much had to invent a new system of notation just to write it down. It was, at the time, the best proveable upper bound on the possible values of a quantity in graph theory for which no-one has yet found a concrete example greater than 13.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
808 is a pretty good number, musically speaking
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
You might have missed my post, it was pretty mnml.
Is it true that buildings in China often have a floor '3a' (or the equivalent) because the words for 'four' and 'death' sound very similar? Or is just one of those things people say and everyone assumes it's true?
I'm quite partial to the Euler–Mascheroni constant.