Favorite number?

[morea]

14

[JPnyc]

Let's see, I got it off the men's room wall.........what was it again.............

[morea]

lol - was it prefaced by the phrase "for a good time, call"?

[JPnyc]

I can't tell ya what it said LOL

[urstwile]

9.

[Jriddim]

10... I know this is craaaazzzzzyyyyyy sounding, but do any of you think about colors that associate with numbers??? Im not crazy,, but I swear ever since i was in single digits of age, reading counting books and such, I just seemed to make connections with numbers and colors... like if you were to design a counting book... what colors would you make the numbers??? In my head i picture number 1 to be blue.. number 2 could be red or yellow.. number 3 is a green number.. number 6 is orange... number 8 says purple... weird i know... but do you kinda see what i mean?

[morea]

well, what color is 10?

[urstwile]

Actually, I read somewhere once that the composer Scriabin used to have colors that he associated with notes in relation to the circle of fifths (which was invented or described by the mathematician Pythagoras, I believe), and used to use that when he was composing music.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriabin

[Jriddim]

seee i think 10 is really special.. because of its eveness... i think ten is grey.... a very neutral number

[Silence04]

18... that's as young as i can go, right?

[morea]

aw, back to my music days! Damn, I miss it.

http://songweaver.com/music/images/co5.gif

[Jriddim]

Actually, I read somewhere once that the composer Scriabin used to have colors that he associated with notes in relation to the circle of fifths (which was invented or described by the mathematician Pythagoras, I believe), and used to use that when he was composing music.

thats quite interesting!

[urstwile]

I think 9 is cool because all of its multiples always add up to 9. Like 9 x 2 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9. Etc. Seems kinda freaky to me.

[urstwile]

aw, back to my music days! Damn, I miss it.

http://songweaver.com/music/images/co5.gif

It's never too late! I still play guitar, sing and play piano (although less of piano lately).

jr, I just added the Scriabin thing to my earlier post, but here's the link in this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriabin

[morea]

I play(ed) french horn, trumpet, flute, piano, and sang. Nothing with strings for me, I have wimpy fingers.

I thought about buying a french horn so I could play for fun, but they're sure not cheap!

[urstwile]

Yeah I also played bassoon and flute, and a brief stint on drums, in high school. I'd love to have a flute again, but not cheap at all! And a bassoon, well, that would be awesome but again, way too expensive, plus the reeds are hard to maintain.

[morea]

It seems that a lot of designers are also musical... pretty interesting! We should start a GDF band! :D

[Jriddim]

I think 9 is cool because all of its multiples always add up to 9. Like 9 x 2 = 18. 1 + 8 = 9. Etc. Seems kinda freaky to me.

absolutley... im so fascinated by this type of stuff... certain synchronizations and similarities are really astounding

[Neballer]

305

[morea]

did you ever see the trick where you hold up both your hands in front of you to do your multiplication tables?

9 x 2 = put down 2nd finger from left... count fingers to left = tens, fingers to right = ones, = 18.

It's easier with a visual.

[Jriddim]

Yes I am also a musician... ive been a drummer as long as ive been a drawer!!! (for lack of a better term) :)

[morea]

Marmalade_Man`s Fantastic Math Tricks
Copyright © Vic Evans, 1996-2005, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

My URL: http://www.angelfire.com/me/marmalade/mathtips.html

Finger Math: 9X Rule

To multiply by 9,try this:
(1) Spread your two hands out and place them on a desk or table in front of you.
(2) To multiply by 3, fold down the 3rd finger from the left. To multiply by 4, it would be the 4th finger and so on.
(3) the answer is 27 ... READ it from the two fingers on the left of the folded down finger and the 7 fingers on the right of it.

This works for anything up to 9x10!

[Jriddim]

did you ever see the trick where you hold up both your hands in front of you to do your multiplication tables?

9 x 2 = put down 2nd finger from left... count fingers to left = tens, fingers to right = ones, = 18.

It's easier with a visual.


i so remember that...all the kids during a math quiz back in school holdin up there hands... LOL i was down-the-line finger counter... and still am today LOL

[morea]

^ they never taught us that in school. I learned it years later, lol

they DID teach us that when you multiply by 9, the results add up to 9

[urstwile]

did you ever see the trick where you hold up both your hands in front of you to do your multiplication tables?

9 x 2 = put down 2nd finger from left... count fingers to left = tens, fingers to right = ones, = 18.

It's easier with a visual.

I'm cornfused. Never saw that trick, actually. And, erm, isn't 9 x 2 = 18? Or am I missing what you're trying to say.

Actually, I love the idea of a GDF band, wonder how we could make that happen?

Edit: Oh wait, never mind, I get it. :rolleyes:

[morea]

lol, typo. Fat fingers tonight. :D

[urstwile]

lol, typo. Fat fingers tonight. :D

Maybe your fingers were strained from all the folding under doing the multiplication tables. :D

[scotiarules]

5....



"I only have a kitchen cause it came with the house!"

[Kool]

#17 at least that's what I always bet on when playing roulette. :)

[angerisagift]

2. no reason really, i've just always liked it...

i too like to play with number relationships, adding and subtracting and such numbers in things like phone #s and seeing relationships

i am also musical...ive been playing bass for 4+ years, and i play almost every day...
a GDF band would be cool...i think i've seen it proposed on here before, and its definately possible...

-sean

[Logo-Mechanix]

4, it's a long story but definitely 4.

[mac.FINN]

not my favourite number but along the lines of the number 9 trick (multiples always equal 9)

If a multi-digit number is divisable by three then when you add up the digits it will always equal 3, 6 or 9.
eg 2784 = 2+7+8+4 = 21 = 2+1 = 3
therefor, 2784 is divisable by 3.

Use it wisely.

[Ghastly]

64...It is the first number (barring 1) expressable both as a square and a cube. 4^3 = 8^2 = 64...Also the product of the first and its square is also 64 4(4^2) = 64
Half of the first number is the exponent that raises the second to 64 4^(6/2) = 64
Half of the second number is the base from which the first raises it to 64 (4/2)^6 = 64
The quotient of the first and second is also the exponent that raises the square of the second to 64 (4^2)^(6/4) = 64
The integer exponents that can raise an integer to 64 are 1,2,3, and 6...the latter being the product and sum of the first 3 64^1 = 8^2 = 4^3 = 2^6 = 64.
Also the number of squares on the board of one of the finest games ever invented...chess!

A fascinating number :cool:

[G-Man79]

23, baby. 23.

[Satchel]

mine is 4. When I was younger (back in the pager days) all my friends and family had codes so we knew who was paging... I was 004 - kinda just got dumbed down to 4 I guess?!

[jimking]

4, it's a long story but definitely 4.
logo, it should be 5. 1+1=2+3 at once=5 :D

[Jeizzavelle]

I like 6.

[senjula]

Oh Nice to see some fellow admires of the number 4.... I like 4 becuase all things in nature seem to be focused around the number 4....seasons - directions and so on 4 to me is also a very mysterious number.

[TheBluePanda]

1 is prolly my favorite. Its so solitary, powerful, and stands before the rest.

Also 9234578023904298

[colonel5]

10... I know this is craaaazzzzzyyyyyy sounding, but do any of you think about colors that associate with numbers??? Im not crazy,, but I swear ever since i was in single digits of age, reading counting books and such, I just seemed to make connections with numbers and colors... like if you were to design a counting book... what colors would you make the numbers??? In my head i picture number 1 to be blue.. number 2 could be red or yellow.. number 3 is a green number.. number 6 is orange... number 8 says purple... weird i know... but do you kinda see what i mean?

last thanksgiving we found out my 19 year old cousin has the same deal. I find it very interesting...

my favorite number is blue +35

[dots]

3 is my #

[TheBluePanda]

3 is my #

And also your current post count! :D

[Ghastly]

not if he/she replies :D

[Logo-Mechanix]

logo, it should be 5. 1+1=2+3 at once=5 :D

Good point, maybe I will consider a change.

[cornfed]

Hi all,

I'm new here! I'm a designer in Louisiana. This seemed like as good a thread as any to introduce myself. My favorite number is 23. I'm also a musician. I play old-timey and cajun french/zydeco music. Here's a link to some of my bands music - www.courtneyfuller.com (http://www.courtneyfuller.com). I know my site needs a complete overhaul. It's in the works! I mostly design cd covers.

Nice meeting you all. I've been lurking around reading posts for about 2 weeks now. It makes me feel too much like a stalker to be reading and not introduce myself!

[jimking]

Welcome cornfed. I'd love to go to Louisiana and eat some of that great food and listen to the Louisiana's native music. I think it would be a blast! And I do love that spicy food. :D

[balou]

Welcome cornfed! I like the music. Especially the fourth one - can just picture the scene. ;)

[prewe]

85

[Jriddim]

64...It is the first number (barring 1) expressable both as a square and a cube. 4^3 = 8^2 = 64...Also the product of the first and its square is also 64 4(4^2) = 64
Half of the first number is the exponent that raises the second to 64 4^(6/2) = 64
Half of the second number is the base from which the first raises it to 64 (4/2)^6 = 64
The quotient of the second and first is also the exponent that raises the square of the second to 64 (4^2)^(4/6) = 64
The integer exponents that can raise an integer to 64 are 1,2,3, and 6...the latter being the product and sum of the first 3 64^1 = 8^2 = 4^3 = 2^6 = 64.
Also the number of squares on the board of one of the finest games ever invented...chess!

A fascinating number :cool:



Integer... quotent???? exponent????? AHHHHHHHHH I got a headache:)...that is fascinating tho!

[Jriddim]

last thanksgiving we found out my 19 year old cousin has the same deal. I find it very interesting...

my favorite number is blue +35

Hmmm so im not crazy??? I think thats awesome...and yeah... 35 is def blue:)

[Jeizzavelle]

Hi all,

I'm new here! I'm a designer in Louisiana. This seemed like as good a thread as any to introduce myself. My favorite number is 23. I'm also a musician. I play old-timey and cajun french/zydeco music. Here's a link to some of my bands music - www.courtneyfuller.com (http://www.courtneyfuller.com). I know my site needs a complete overhaul. It's in the works! I mostly design cd covers.

Nice meeting you all. I've been lurking around reading posts for about 2 weeks now. It makes me feel too much like a stalker to be reading and not introduce myself!
Did somebody say stalker? :eek: (Just kidding.) Welcome, Cornfed! :D

[Ghastly]

Aye welcome to the forum Cornfed

Jriddim..glad to see that I am not the only person with the respect for 64 that it deserves :cool: ...had to edit my original post though because I made an embarassing typo :o

oh...and for those of you that favour 2 or 4... good choice :cool:, they can both be expressed as the index/exponent of the other to make the same number, and apart from the negatives of 2 and 4 (-2,-4)...no other pair of integers share this property!

[vtwin_gary]

lucky 13

[Elrod]

I like 3....3 is good and bad...so it's balanced.
Good 3- my immediate family was 3, M&P&Me. Never a crowd..but always someone to hang with.
Bad 3- The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up
~MacBeth Act I Scene III
The 3 Witches!


Hey, that beloved 9 is in there too!

[Russian girl]

********** 5 **********

[doubting_thomas]

My favorite is 26, but I like 3, too. Easy to divide with. Any number that
has intergers that add up to a number divisible by three divides evenly
by three. Example: 825 8+2+5=15 825/3=275. My world is one of
simple pleasures... :rolleyes:

[reuber1]

I like
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/pi.jpg

[vtwin_gary]

mmm..... pie

[urstwile]

I like 3....3 is good and bad...so it's balanced.
Good 3- my immediate family was 3, M&P&Me. Never a crowd..but always someone to hang with.
Bad 3- The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! the charm's wound up
~MacBeth Act I Scene III
The 3 Witches!


Hey, that beloved 9 is in there too!

Three is definitely a close second to nine, in my book. :)

[urstwile]

I like
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/pi.jpg

Me too:
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1504/images8fu.jpg

[morea]

Me too:
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/1504/images8fu.jpg

oooh, you sharing?

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9428/share3di.jpg

[angerisagift]

i wrote a song about pi once with my drummer....for the last Pi day i think....pie is good...pi makes me think of math class, which can sometimes be good, or sometimes be very very bad....

-sean

[urstwile]

oooh, you sharing?

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9428/share3di.jpg

Of course!

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8205/piedoublecrust2ix.jpg

[Ovaltine]

Right now, I like #2, it's the first prime number, and the only even prime.

My mother would love this thread, she's a librarian now, but she taught math for over 20 years.

[captain spanky]

my favourite number has always been 69. ;)

but 3... that's a magic number. :D

[captain spanky]

lmao... :D



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my posts :D

[Ghastly]

I like
http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/pi.jpg

pi eh?:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140266801/qid=1149769486/sr=1-19/ref=sr_1_2_19/202-7528663-4559837

enjoy :cool:

[keith1]

My favorite number is eleventeen.

[morea]

*tackles Keith*

KEITH! Never leave us again!

[reuber1]

I'll get the straight jacket.

[keith1]

It's tough to hang out online too long at my new job becuz the boss has a direct line of sight from his office to my screen. And I'm pretty busy all the time anyway. So I'll have to just start visting here after work or early in the morning. I get to work at 6:45, I know yikes!

[morea]

*assists reuber with straight jacket and duct tape*

[colonel5]

Hmmm so im not crazy??? I think thats awesome...and yeah... 35 is def blue:)

no you're not crazy, but we sure made my cousin feel crazy as we questioned her to death.

I think it's kind of cool

[keith1]

I think of numbers being colors too. But I think my association comes from pool balls. 2=blue, 3=red etc...

[colonel5]

I associate numbers with peoples birthdays... like let's take the number 2 for example.. I'll think of my sister, my friends mom and a couple friends of mine that have bdays on the 2nd day of certain months... along with Lindsay Lohan & Britney Spears who also have bdays on the 2nd day of certain months... i really shouldn't know that