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    The Sword of Rome Member Marcellus's Avatar
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    Default Re: What's your favourite number?

    21 or 42.
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    Default Re: What's your favorite number?

    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:
    1. 2 + 2 = 4
    2. 2 * 2 = 4
    3. 2 ^ 2 = 4 (thanks to doc_bean for pointing that out)


    So yep, 2 is my number. Follow closely by 1.
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    Default Re: What's your favorite number?

    1. 2 + 2 = 4
    2. 2 * 2 = 4
    you forgot:

    3. 2^ 2 = 4
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    Hey thanks!
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    Mine are 17 and 6. I guess i can be a runner up.
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    Default Re: What's your favorite number?

    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).
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    Default Re: What's your favorite number?

    The prime number 71551 is also quite nice, but the non-prime 715517 is a bit better.

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    9.

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

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

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    cool lol

    8 is cool

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