Most important # of all time

[Sick Of Sickness]

Id have to say 137, after watching this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSLIW0gZtk (for some reason the youtube tag wont work)

 

[ninja_lord666]

Id have to say 137, after watching this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlSLIW0gZtk (for some reason the youtube tag wont work)

Yay! I'm not the only one who sees the great importance in α!

 

[Ictinike]

Phone number to the pizza join down the road... for sure.

 

[mechoman444]

42!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahah I get it... Douglas Adams... ya ya ya!

Anywho... 1.618 because its found all through nature.

And 113085, the day I was born!

 

[Turtle]

The Dealion - 1/2235197406895366368301559999


But i also like 1/0 - back in High School we tried to make a system based on it. The argument was: if someone can just define sqrt(-1), call it i and use it for calculations, then we can do the same for 1/0. Made a lot of funny rules for it :lol:

 

[buzzausa]

Okay.....a lot of you mentioned the number 42......

I'm just going to come out and admit ignorance here........what is the deal with 42??

 

[ladiesman391]

Okay.....a lot of you mentioned the number 42......

I'm just going to come out and admit ignorance here........what is the deal with 42??

I'll be nice and won't point out your self appointed ignorance again :mrgreen: but it's originally from the 1979 book series by Douglas Adams "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy".

 

[pyxzer]

I'll be nice and won't point out your self appointed ignorance again :mrgreen: but it's originally from the 1979 book series by Douglas Adams "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy".

I think you missed the important bit:
42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

 

[buzzausa]

All right then....thanks to both of you. Guess I'll have to read those books....how many are there?

 

[Pulsar]

All right then....thanks to both of you. Guess I'll have to read those books....how many are there?

It's a trilogy in five parts. Don't panic! And don't forget your towel

 

[buzzausa]

It's a trilogy in five parts. Don't panic! And don't forget your towel

So it's a pentalogy. Am I the only one who didn't read these books? Gotta get with the program here....

 

[Ciraric]

So it's a pentalogy. Am I the only one who didn't read these books? Gotta get with the program here....

I've never read them either.

And just because I want to be super pedantic and also because I like upsetting everybody's day it's not actually from the book.

It is originally from the 1978 BBC Radio Show of the same name which was then turned into a book.

 

[Spase]

I've never read them either.

And just because I want to be super pedantic and also because I like upsetting everybody's day it's not actually from the book.

It is originally from the 1978 BBC Radio Show of the same name which was then turned into a book.

How funny... I was going to say I never read the book, I listened to the recorded radio show.. though I think I own a copy. It's a pretty short read.

As for numbers.. all the good ones have been taken. e is probably my favorite.. and 0 is probably the best in terms of absolute utility. Most important though? It gets a little blurred I think by the fact that they're all just a clever conceptual framework we've created to model the world. Ever since we started counting we've used numbers to turn experiences into abstract representations. We just keep getting better at it... but in the end it's all made-up in the same way that language is... "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But then you get into the philosophy of whether another representation of the same thing would in fact be the same thing. I'm not a mathematician by any stretch so I'm leaving it there.

 

[dkturner]

e, because the other three Really Interesting Numbers emerge from it as a consequence of Euler's equation.

The other three RINs are:

Pi: because why?
i: because wtf?
1: because God invented the integers.

 

[Pulsar]

So it's a pentalogy.

No no, it isn't, cause that would make sense! And nothing about the Hitchhikers Guide makes sense whatsoever :lol: Here's the book cover Oh, and I've only read the first book, the rest is waiting on my shelf. Ah, so much to read, so little time...

 

[buzzausa]

No no, it isn't, cause that would make sense! And nothing about the Hitchhikers Guide makes sense whatsoever :lol: Here's the book cover Oh, and I've only read the first book, the rest is waiting on my shelf. Ah, so much to read, so little time...

I stand corrected . Now I really want to read it

 

[TonyBtheEG]

Numbers and letters are the same thing if you're using them to represent the same thing.

Language is an illusion!

 

[jgoemat]

Of course you can always develop a larger number G^G, for instance

How about using the representation of G, but with G levels instead of only 64?

 

[Jotto999]

1337

 

[Ciraric]

Of course you can always develop a larger number G^G, for instance

How about using the representation of G, but with G levels instead of only 64?

However, the whole point was that G was the largest, applicable, number.

What appliance does G to the power G have? Other than to be a big fuck you to mathematicians everywhere (this is why mathematicians aren't allowed to have nice things).