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Poll: what's your favourite number? (39 member(s) have cast votes)

what's your favourite number?

  1. i (2 votes [5.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.13%

  2. 0 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. 1 (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

  4. sqrt2 (3 votes [7.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.69%

  5. ln(10) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. e (2 votes [5.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.13%

  7. 3 (3 votes [7.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.69%

  8. pi (2 votes [5.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.13%

  9. 7 (2 votes [5.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.13%

  10. 12 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  11. 13 (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

  12. 21 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  13. 23 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  14. 42 (4 votes [10.26%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.26%

  15. 52 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  16. 100 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  17. 256 (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  18. 1024 (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

  19. 655321 (5 votes [12.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.82%

  20. Graham's number (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

  21. some unappealing number (x) (12 votes [30.77%])

    Percentage of vote: 30.77%

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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2010-June-26, 18:07

 
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
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Posted 2010-June-26, 18:13

Fitting to be the second post: but 2!

So can't click on your poll!!!
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Posted 2010-June-26, 18:34

69 is missing from your options. I also see you hold a prejudice against negative numbers. Anyway I choose 7.
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Posted 2010-June-26, 19:04

6 is really unbearable. always claiming to be perfect, and the square root of 2 can be really irrational. 1 is boring, 2 is bipolar and a bit frightening. I am way too ordinary a guy to go in for the transcendentalists such as e and pi. Googol changed his name to google and now snoops around my email. I think I will go with 5. A nice solid prime sort of guy, a bit odd but then so am I.

although when things get complex, 5 can have other factors to consider
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Posted 2010-June-26, 21:53

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1 is boring


I hate to disagree again, Ken, but 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.

Number nine, number nine, number nine.

In the year 2525....

However, eight days a week, I lo-o-o-o-ove you.

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Ricky don't lose that number, you don't want to call nobody else. Send it off in a letter to yourself. Ricky don't lose that number. It's the only one you own. You might use it if you feel better, when you get home.
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Posted 2010-June-26, 22:15

How is this a contest when 655321 is an option?
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Posted 2010-June-27, 00:33

69 ainec
OK
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Posted 2010-June-27, 00:34

Meanwhile I hate all these 21100101202120011001201 :P
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Posted 2010-June-27, 00:34

also sup gwnn?
OK
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Posted 2010-June-27, 01:37

Obviously 655321 is the most beautifull.

I'm into praticality however, so 60 is my number.

It is divideable by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.

There is a reason why noone ever tries to change the way we meassure time.
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Posted 2010-June-27, 02:37

Number 5 is clearly missing. That would have been my vote.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2010-June-27, 03:34

47 for Star Trek fans is missing, no surprises I voted 42 though B)
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Posted 2010-June-27, 03:44

yay i am 13th
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Posted 2010-June-27, 04:17

no phi? :-(
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Posted 2010-June-27, 06:08

Thought the golden mean should be in there, if only for mikeh whose relays are based on the fibonacci numbers.

I voted for 655321 of course.
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Posted 2010-June-27, 06:47

I had to delete a few options because of some technicality from the board rules. I admit though that I forgot about the golden mean. Also maybe the magic angle (arccos(sqrt(1/3)))? Well, too late now. The 'wtf gwnn' option has been intentionally omitted.
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Posted 2010-June-28, 04:24

BTW do numbers exist? If not, what do they do?
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Posted 2010-July-08, 02:51

The only prime number known so far that I can't memorize: 2^43112609 - 1
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Posted 2010-July-08, 03:15

gwnn, on Jun 28 2010, 12:24 PM, said:

BTW do numbers exist? If not, what do they do?

Nothing exists, it is all in your mind.
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We should always assume 2/1 unless otherwise stated, because:

- If the original poster didn't bother to state his system, that means that he thinks it's obvious what he's playing. The only people who think this are 2/1 players.

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Posted 2010-July-08, 03:40

1 is an important number surely, as you need it for events which happen almost-surely.
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