digits

ah sorry. this was lame.

8

i remember in elementary school math classes feeling a kinship with the odd numbers and assuming they were somehow underdogs. I resented the evens. /crazy

anyway, something strikes me as utterly correct about the number 4

ha 4 is probably the greatest oppressor of odd numbers

i was about to say! 4 is totally fascist!

5

i think 5 was my favorite, too. it's cute!

The Reverend, this question is important. Do not chide yourself. I think about it often.

I felt the numbers '0' and '5' were bad because everyone set their clocks at 5 and 10 minute intervals. That is why, still to this day, I set the microwave for times like 1:27 or 3:03 because they would just get neglected otherwise.

Three is great and three squared is nine so nine might be even greater! But the greatest number of them all, the greatest is three to the THIRD power, twenty-seven. (I also have a kinship for '27' because I think the happiest I remember my dad is when his favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys, won the TWENTY-SEVENth Superbowl. Really stuck with me.)

(He was notably happy that night. Is why.)

it's sad how your dad and i are mortal football enemies, but i agree with you about 3. his cowboys also won super bowl 28. ;_;

He was like "I can't believe they WON! It's the 27, I'm telling you! Remember, (my mom's name), we got married when I was 27. GO COWBOYS!!! COWBOYS!!!"

Mom was an afterthought.

i remember in elementary school math classes feeling a kinship with the odd numbers and assuming they were somehow underdogs. I resented the evens. /crazy

are you a middle child? i am in middle of 3 and i always resented even numbers because i would never be on one side or the other. i kinda like 7, but i don't know why.

lol my dad prayed during halftime of super bowl xxv. dads.

xpost, no I'm the eldest!

7, it should be noted, is the highest prime number out of the digits

odd numbers vs. even numbers is the beatles vs. stones of numerology.

All you need know is that pi(n)/(n/ln(n)) ~ 1.

haha the scene just came on in something about mary where the hitchhiker gives his rant about 7-minute abs.

4 has potential

9

;]

8

5 as a close second

7 is the WORST number

Roman numerals have more aesthetic qualities, for example VIII compared to 8.

...but 8 totally for its symmetrical and well balanced look...

i've been thinking about 5 lately because of the kid learning his numbers. showing him how to count on his hands. units of 5 become this really basic obvious thing at that level.

i guess in simpsons world everything must be base 8.

(or not.

)

primes>>>composites

though compelling cases could be made for 0 & 1

utterly insipid navel-gazing bullshit in a landslide

You have digits in your navel?

http://www.spacemen3.co.uk/images/sp3logo.gif

It's a magic number, you know!

The Spacemen 3 logo makes a good argument. Weren't you gonna get that as a tattoo?

I want to vote for the most downtrodden, least respected of the digits but I can't decide which one that is. 6 maybe?

Yes. And now I have money again, I shall!

I too felt as a kid there was something kind of smug about even numbers. Of course to buy into a dichotomy on whichever side is to participate in the glorification of two-ness which is the root of the self-satisfaction of the evens so you cannot win. Right?

So I was all about the 3s and the 7s as the quirky underdogs, the first choice of somehow more random-looking number, until I decided that they're everyone's favourite quirky underdog numbers and everyone's first "quick, make it look random! nobody else will have thought of it" number and so also wildly overrepresented and... shit, I don't know any more, man. I expect a good showing for 3 and 7, and I'm thinking 8 is going to do badly, cz it's just so dull, even, power-of-2, plump round symbol, a little too pleased with its own symmetry... not even the 3 of 2^3 can save it.

I am glad other people have these thoughts too because now I've typed them they look a little unstable sitting there on the screen in front of me.

I like 8 because it can be turned on its side to form an infinity symbol.

And it's a cube, which is always good. It's like a completed 3, and on old school calculators, it's the digit that uses up all the LEDs.

*backs away cautiously* (from space cadet)

I'm going for six. I'm thinking it'll likely be under-represented. And it's also two threes so should be doubly magic.

Realised I have just spent more than twenty-one minutes contemplating this vote; I can probably not complain about how poorly I am paid.

Joy of 6 for me.

odd numbers are indie. 4 is the radio smash hit.

5 had everything handed to it on a silver platter.

> So I was all about the 3s and the 7s as the quirky underdogs

isn't 3 the most popular choice when people are asked for a number between 1 and 5 and 7 the same for numbers < 10? hardly underdogs.

whereas 6 is my birthday. and perfect. and triangular.

> "quick, make it look random! nobody else will have thought of it"

oh, you said that. oops.

7. 7 has class.

if man is 5 and the devil is 6 then god is 7

so imagine how awesome 8 must be

Awesome is seven letters
seven is five letters
five is four letters
four is four letters
Awesome = 4

It's math.

^^^tough to argue with that

7 rules btw

9. magical number

8 is too retro

I felt the numbers '0' and '5' were bad because everyone set their clocks at 5 and 10 minute intervals. That is why, still to this day, I set the microwave for times like 1:27 or 3:03 because they would just get neglected otherwise.

-- Abbott, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 1:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

when i had a microwave i did this too but just because i was lazy... instead of 3:00 i would just keep hitting 3 like the old mitch hedberg phone number joke

Seven. It's an odd number with even in it.

4 is unlucky and 8 symbolises prosperity/wealth in Chinese culture.

i was always number four in my class so... yeah four.

The word "four" in Japanese is similar to the word for "death", which is why it's considered unlucky. When I was younger, I had this thing* where objects had to be 4 in total, because "2 times 2 equals 4". That's as much of an explaination as I could have given you for why? at the time. Then I had a similar obsession with 3, and also 9 ("3 times 3 equals 9"). Maybe there's some kind of latent fascination with square roots or something. The number 7 as well, simply because it's considered a lucky number in Western cultures, and also because by that time I felt that I needed some luck and had developed a phobia of even numbers.

i also favored 4 as a kid, i think 2+2 = 2*2 = 4 blew my mind

I too favoured odd numbers as a kid because of some instinctive affinity with the underdog. Never liked 7, though, as its status as a 'lucky number' made it far too popular. I had the same problem with 5 as Abbott (though it never impinged on my liking for 0, which I always dissociated from 10) - the use in clocks made it feel too eveny. 3 is okay but I feel in a 9 kind of mood today.

i remember having a short obsession with 9 because everything multiplied by 9 eventually adds up to 9. 9x2=18, 1+8=9, 9x27=243, 2+4+3=9

YES THAT IS A FUCKING MINDBLOWER THANK YOU TO MATHNET ON SQUARE ONE TV PROGREM FOR BLOWING MY FUCKING MIND

HAAAAAA I first learnt it on Square One! Nine, nine, nine... fantastic number nine...

Square One got me all the way through eighth grade algebra.

9 friendly 4 lame

Nine, nine, nine... fantastic number nine...

i was just telling someone about this recently! that song has been in my head for multiple years now.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q53GmMCqmAM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=V8tcJzG7yyM

Yes. The nine song is about the only thing I remember about Square One besides Mathnet. "My name is Monday. I'm a mathematician."

1 has been overdone by the monists, whose tribe is numerous.
2 has been overdone by the dualists, whose tribe waxes anon.
3 has been overdone by Christian mystics.
4 is simply stolid and impossible to be around.
5 is too cute, a regular half-pint with moon eyes.
6 is dull.
7 is overrated.
8 is not much better than 4, if anything a tad worse.
9 is of some interest, but is complex in a sadly simple sort of way.

I voted zero. It is the only one that has real style.

I love what Charles Seife has to say about zero:

"Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics!"

4, with 8 and 7 close runners up

7, because 11 is not a digit

1 is the loneliest number and yet also the most popular

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Six has the best multiplication rock theme. Theresix, six.

any preference is proof you're stuck in a closed system of thought 1 1 3 5 8 13 21 etc

six is all over my history blud.

six

damn, tru ndeed

fiboNAZI amirite?

9 > the rest

^ fact

I am proud to have been born on the 9th. 9 is also slurping tongue in the slurping tongue emoticon. 9 for life. Woot go 9.

a pox on all you decimalists.

yeah i voted for 9. bigger is better.

http://philspector.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/magic-number-cover.jpg

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77!

one is the loneliest number that you ever seen....

http://www.lovelake.org/no.5.JPG