Do you have a favorite number, why?

[Roland]

Funny, I have dyscalculia so I hate math and numbers but I have a lot of associations with numbers. Like when I see 9:09 on the clock, I think of my son because that's what time he was born. I have a number, my brother has a number, my husband always sees 1107 everywhere. If you tell me a number, I'll probably repeat it back to you wrong in some way, but I remember some specific dates without trying. Like the date we left my dad or the day I miscarried.

Numerology is interesting to me but sometimes it still doesn't make sense. 1107 is a signal of new beginnings (things are about to change in a big way) and that you're successful in life. But he's seen that number all the time for years now.

 

[In the weeds]

54

 

[Survivor3]

I like the number 3 because *pie* is 3.14. And it's got something to do with spirals and some old famous Greek guy I think (who I can't remember) haha.

 

[Sideways]

And it's got something to do with spirals and some old famous Greek guy I think (who I can't remember) haha

Are you the thinking of the Fibonacci sequence? All about spirals, and very cool. But a series of numbers, rather than just one extremely cool number like pi

 

[Survivor3]

Are you the thinking of the Fibonacci sequence? All about spirals, and very cool. But a series of numbers, rather than just one extremely cool number like pi

Wonderful!! Yes sideways! It was the fibonacci sequence I was thinking about. well done!

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

lots of different ones, they mean different things to me. I don’t believe in lucky numbers or stuff like that but they’re special or meaningful to me in their own ways. I used to be heavy into encrypting a lot of what I was going through mentally, back then I used numbers to represent a whole bunch of things including certain emotions. And also used ciphers, phonetic symbols (IPA), colors.

7 and 3 have always been favourites, not sure why they’re just pleasing. I like odd numbers. Got some tripple digit numbers too but those are the basic ones I like the most.

 

[gorgonzola]

42 of course.

But I also like prime numbers, and employ them to set the TV volume to. Because aural response is logarithmic while I figure TV volume settings are linear, and the density of prime number is approxomately proportional to log(N), hence by sticking to the primes I have roughly equal perceptual volume response increments. It bothers me a bit to have the TV volume at composite numbers.

I got my nephew a gift card for <2 digit prime> dollars and <2 digit prime> cents that strung together make <4 digit prime>. I wonder if he'll notice.

 

[In the weeds]

54

I just realized I hadn't answered the part about "why?" Sorry!

It's because that's how old I was when I walked away from the abuse I had gone through for years in my marriage. I was finally free - at 54.

 

[user27357]

92. especially as a percentage, as in 92%. It has become commonly used as a throwaway number to be used in place of an actual number when the speaker is trying to convey a high percentage but not the easily disputed 100% that conveys an absolute. It seems to be just below the threshold that puts the fact checkers in action. Not me, it has become like a siren that raises my hackles. 92%? put a pin in it, i will check that later.

 

[Freddyt]

Three related numbers. 21, 7, and 3. 7 is the month I was born. 3x7 is the day,

 

[whiteraven]

9. Don't know why. LOL And I like all odd numbers (because even ones are, you know, evil LOL).