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Devastatin Dave
06-05-2006, 16:50
Mine? 1

LeftEyeNine
06-05-2006, 16:51
9..LeftEyeNine ~:)

Banquo's Ghost
06-05-2006, 17:25
Pi.

It's the number that just keeps on giving....

~D

Bar Kochba
06-05-2006, 17:28
666 number of the beasts

Rodion Romanovich
06-05-2006, 17:46
Infinity, but some say it's not a number. Zero is quite interesting too. But I like a variable like x much more than the actual numbers it might stand for, because x might refer to any number, so I don't have to choose a favorite number.

Ianofsmeg16
06-05-2006, 17:57
guess

discovery1
06-05-2006, 18:02
Sqrt(-1)

A rather imaginative choice wouldn't you say?

Masy
06-05-2006, 18:06
42, closely followed by 1337

Devastatin Dave
06-05-2006, 18:14
guess
+1 possibly?

Ianofsmeg16
06-05-2006, 18:23
Hell no DevDave, look at my name ;)

16 :D

yesdachi
06-05-2006, 18:42
7 of 9 :sweetheart:

BHCWarman88
06-05-2006, 18:44
is it not obisuoly?? it's 8........

Devastatin Dave
06-05-2006, 18:52
Hell no DevDave, look at my name ;)

16 :D
Man how could I miss that!?!!? I guess my favorite is also reflective of my IQ!!! LOL:laugh4:

Duke Malcolm
06-05-2006, 18:56
is it not obisuoly?? it's 8........
It could be 88...

Mine is 312...

The_Mark
06-05-2006, 19:33
x = φ | x € (R\Q)

x = 1/2 | x € (Q\Z)

x = -1 | x € (Z\N)

x = 385 | x € (N)

385 is somehow a subconsciuosly remarkable number for me: If I try to come up with a random number with three or more digits, 385 is bound to show up, with the number numbers probably in that order, though it has some variation. 7 will also spring up at some point alongside those three numbers.

Other favourites: 1/(1+1/(1+1/(1+1/(...))))

Avicenna
06-05-2006, 19:38
I'm having a hard time choosing between pi and phi.

Legio: What kind of infinity? Some are more infinitely large than others, some are infinitely small.

Duke Malcolm
06-05-2006, 19:56
7 of 9 :sweetheart:

Damned trekkie...:rifle:

Rodion Romanovich
06-05-2006, 20:24
Legio: What kind of infinity? Some are more infinitely large than others, some are infinitely small.

Positive or negative infinity works well for me. Or a vector with all values being infinity. Or an n-dimensional matrix where are values are infinity, and guess what n=infinity.

Also I like all numbers contained withing the sets of the set of all sets that don't contain themselves.

GeneralHankerchief
06-05-2006, 20:33
e. :evil:

My favorite non-going-on-forever number is 64.

doc_bean
06-05-2006, 20:56
phi !


we're running out of well known irrational numbers here :oops:

Taurus
06-05-2006, 21:00
My favourite number is whatever age I am at the time, at the moment that is 17.

However I am also a great fan of the number 89, which is the year I was born.

yesdachi
06-05-2006, 21:10
Damned trekkie...:rifle:
Captain’s log: remember to not invite Duke Malcolm to the next Star Trek Convention.


I also like 7 because 7 8 9.

Husar
06-05-2006, 22:02
number of the breasts
I edited it a bit.:2thumbsup:

Mine is probably 1985, my year of birth.
Or two, not sure.

Beirut
06-05-2006, 22:11
17

also

63

edyzmedieval
06-05-2006, 22:16
1, 20 or 13.

:balloon2:

Uesugi Kenshin
06-05-2006, 22:25
Well nobody's mentioned that other irrational number...

e

I don't really have a favorite number anymore.

Shadows
06-05-2006, 22:26
I'm going to go with 27. Why? I have no idea. Its just appealing to me. As is the number 11. My jersey number for my soccer team.

GeneralHankerchief
06-05-2006, 22:58
Well nobody's mentioned that other irrational number...

e

I don't really have a favorite number anymore.

I beg to differ.


e. :evil:

My favorite non-going-on-forever number is 64.

Marcellus
06-05-2006, 23:10
21 or 42. :balloon2:

littlelostboy
06-05-2006, 23:42
The number 2. Cause I'm the second child in my family and I just like 2.
2 is a prime number
2 is an even number
2 is part of the Fibonacci Sequence (the sequence found in the whole universe)
2 is the only number in the number system that has this special property:

2 + 2 = 4
2 * 2 = 4
2 ^ 2 = 4 (thanks to doc_bean for pointing that out)


So yep, 2 is my number. Follow closely by 1.

doc_bean
06-05-2006, 23:48
2 + 2 = 4
2 * 2 = 4



you forgot:

3. 2^ 2 = 4

littlelostboy
06-06-2006, 00:04
Hey thanks!

Zalmoxis
06-06-2006, 03:05
Mine are 17 and 6. I guess i can be a runner up.

Papewaio
06-06-2006, 03:09
Sqrt(-1)

A rather imaginative choice wouldn't you say?

i it is :laugh4:

Personally it isn't a single number that I like but the following formula.

e^(i*pi) - 1 = 0

Reverend Joe
06-06-2006, 04:46
979. Cause it sounds nice.

mercian billman
06-06-2006, 05:30
Infinity, but some say it's not a number. Zero is quite interesting too. But I like a variable like x much more than the actual numbers it might stand for, because x might refer to any number, so I don't have to choose a favorite number.

Not true Chuck Norris counted to infinity twice.

My favorite number is 7 just because it was the number I wore in little league baseball.

naut
06-06-2006, 08:36
33 and

f(x) = 3(5/13)^-x

+1

AggonyDuck
06-06-2006, 10:17
My favourite is 6. ~:)

naut
06-06-2006, 10:55
My favourite is 6. ~:)

Today must be extra lucky for you then, 6/6/6

Fragony
06-06-2006, 12:31
88 :oops:

Hmmm don't have one, will I still be able to live a meaningfull life? Never heard of people having a lucky number, color ok, but a number :inquisitive:

KukriKhan
06-06-2006, 13:47
I agree with littlelostboy:

2

but for different reasons.

1 is obvious. I am 1. But if 2 is possible - something not I, but also existing - that implies all other numbers and choices and possibilities, and also distinguishes and helps define '1'.

Zero is interesting and useful, but I don't really comprehend it (it's like radio & TV for me: just because I don't 'get it' how images and sound can be sucked out of thin air and shown to me, doesn't mean I can't use it).

The_Mark
06-06-2006, 14:48
The prime number 71551 is also quite nice, but the non-prime 715517 is a bit better.

Craterus
06-07-2006, 17:30
9.

Born at 9 o' clock on 09/09/90 weighing 9lbs.

09/09/99 was my 9th birthday, that was pretty cool.

BHCWarman88
06-07-2006, 17:45
cool lol

8 is cool