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1 [3.45%]
1 [3.45%]
4 [13.79%]
1 [3.45%]
2 [6.90%]
1 [3.45%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
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1 [3.45%]
3 [10.34%]
1 [3.45%]
1 [3.45%]
1 [3.45%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
2 [6.90%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.45%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.45%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [3.45%]
7 [24.14%]
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    Posted: May 02 2012 at 03:04
Originally posted by Dayvenkirq



2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.


Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number!

As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?
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9 and 27 (but that's 9+9+9), because I give too much importance to my birthday (while still cursing my existence in every other regard).
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You missed infinitely many numbers not on this list :(

Euler's number would probably be my favorite followed closely by the squareroot of 2.

If we're talking integers, before I studied math it was 11. I enjoyed the primality and the symmetry. It's also cool how it's an iterative number of the multiplicative identity. Since studying it, I've found 11 can be kind of boring, but I guess I'll still say it's 11.
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Originally posted by JJLehto

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq



2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.


Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number!

As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?


He's also missing rational numbers.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly

I've always said my favorite number is zero.  It's the one number you can always count on.

I just hope Equality doesn't come in and ask me to explain why.


Why would you say zero? Please explain.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - May 02 2012 at 09:53
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None of the above. But from this list I prefer 17, followed by 5 and 2.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Originally posted by HolyMoly

I've always said my favorite number is zero.  It's the one number you can always count on.

I just hope Equality doesn't come in and ask me to explain why.


Why would you say zero? Please explain.


LOL

It's a nice round number, look at that:

0

I analyze numbers and data for a living.  It's hard to explain, but that number seems to come in handy more than any other.  Plus, tack it on the end of any number, and it will multiply it by ten, for added pizazz.



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Originally posted by JJLehto

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq



2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.


Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number!

As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?

Yeah, that's what I meant by 'dirty dozen', and if that and 'unlucky number' are not synonymous, then I apologize. That's exactly what I meant - an unlucky number. Besides, I was born on 13th of March ... Shocked Big smile .
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Originally posted by HolyMoly



LOL

It's a nice round number, look at that:

0

I analyze numbers and data for a living.  It's hard to explain, but that number seems to come in handy more than any other.  Plus, tack it on the end of any number, and it will multiply it by ten, for added pizazz.





You should have said something cool like it makes solving quadratic equations possible :(
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^ Fine, on behalf of Steve I will say: " It makes solving quadratic equations possible .. Big smile ."

Edited by Dayvenkirq - May 02 2012 at 11:46
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42 because it's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
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^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Originally posted by JJLehto

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq



2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.


Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number!

As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?


He's also missing rational numbers.


Indeed, but as I said "when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?"
Also, my guess is there are tons of numbers I don't even know about, so they'd be excluded just out of ignorance.
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Originally posted by Dayvenkirq

^ What's the ultimate question of life? When am I most likely to die?

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
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Originally posted by JJLehto

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Originally posted by JJLehto

Originally posted by Dayvenkirq



2nd favorite: 13. It's a dirty dozen. It's a prime number. It's a Fibonacci number.


Intriguing point. Also 13 is the famous unlucky number!

As you have noticed I don't have 0, negative numbers, irrational numbers, or whatever else I missed but when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?


He's also missing rational numbers.


Indeed, but as I said "when has the parameters of a poll every stopped anyone?"
Also, my guess is there are tons of numbers I don't even know about, so they'd be excluded just out of ignorance.


There probably are, but in our standard Real number system ration and irrational together would cover anything. He's missing imaginary too, but since the idea of a number is so general he's missing more things than we could even talking about. I just assumed he was narrowing his attention to the Reals.
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Who's "he" btw?
If you mean the poll creator that was of course me.
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Originally posted by JJLehto

Who's "he" btw?
If you mean the poll creator that was of course me.


Ha I thought textbook made it since he makes threads for everything.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521

Originally posted by JJLehto

Who's "he" btw?
If you mean the poll creator that was of course me.


Ha I thought textbook made it since he makes threads for everything.


Understood. I made these last 2 to mock him actuallyBig smile
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^ I would say mission accomplished. 
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