[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/sci/ - Science & Math


View post   

File: 3 KB, 331x152, lemniscate.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9302450 No.9302450 [Reply] [Original]

What is your favorite number and why?

Bonus points for special properties.

>> No.9302473

bump

>> No.9302477

8 for obvious reasons.

>> No.9302478

I like 100 because it's the biggest number

>> No.9302534

Belphegor's prime

Also 25

>> No.9302542

420.69

>> No.9302547

The smallest positive real number.

Because you can't do calculus without it.

>> No.9302550

57 because is a prime

>> No.9302559

6 because of my post number

>> No.9302565

>>9302550
How's purgatory?

>> No.9303920
File: 11 KB, 423x279, 1463969467008.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9303920

>>9302450
23 because it's my day of birth and it's prime. Also, there's a shitty movie with jim carrey about it.

>> No.9303922

>>9302550
kek

>> No.9303923

>>9302547
Yeah, 0 is pretty cool

>> No.9303925

>>9302450
The Feigenbaum constants, because every chaos system that is defined by the constants will bifurcate the same.

>> No.9303933

for me, it's 1.

>> No.9303940

My amazing dubs

>> No.9303941

im lonely

>> No.9303995

>>9302450
For me it's 4, cause it's the first natural number that's a square and not equal to it's square root

>> No.9304015

>>9302478
haha idiot 1000 is so much biggest

>> No.9304078

>>9303923
>0
>positive

>> No.9304093
File: 182 KB, 600x367, CVdBTpfWIAA5dgZ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9304093

5

>> No.9304120

my dubs

>> No.9304122

>>9303941
1?

>> No.9304136

>>9303941
Me too.

>> No.9304140 [DELETED] 
File: 317 KB, 1876x1178, mrkleinbottle.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9304140

>9302450
Klein bottle

>> No.9304444

>>9303940
>>9304120
Noobs.

>> No.9304453

>>9304444
Dayum son, stealing these 2 dubs to make a quads

>> No.9304455

>>9302450
16777216

>> No.9304473

>>9302450
3301

>> No.9304515

>>9302450
1488

>> No.9304522

>>9302450
Honestly, the number 1. It was the first number and it's a pretty essential number to know, ya know?

>> No.9304575

Loader's number

>> No.9304583

1729

>> No.9304589

>>9304590
this one

>> No.9304590

>>9304589
hi

>> No.9304591

>>9304590
this one, of course

>> No.9304593

>>9304589
>>9304590
>>9304591
those ones are alright.

>>9304592
but this ones better

>> No.9304594

>>9304594
This is my favorite color

>> No.9304595

>>9304595
FUCKING CAPTCHA WHY DO YOU TAKE SO LONG!!
>>9304594
FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

>> No.9304612

>>9304594
But which is it?
And how do you do that?

>> No.9304619

>>9304583
Pajeet detected

>> No.9304648

>DEVIL PRIME

1000000000000066600000000000001

>> No.9304655

>>9304575
http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/Loader%27s_number

>It is among the largest computable numbers ever devised.

God damn the people who write this wiki are hopeless. It's trivial to make vastly larger computable numbers.

>> No.9304660
File: 24 KB, 276x280, 1463353909015.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9304660

1945

>> No.9304705

>>9302450
3

>> No.9304757

>>9304078
>doesn't get the joke/point he was making

>> No.9305120

>>9302450
7744
Cause it's double dubs and its square root is also dubs.

>> No.9305127

>>9302450
1/\sqrt{2}

>> No.9305128

>>9305127
Because
>muh 63%

>> No.9305141

>>9302450
2 can be as bad as 1
it's the loneliest number
since the number 1

>> No.9305153

>>9302450
inf isn't a real number.

>> No.9305161

>>9304757
The joke was that there is no smallest positive number, not that 0 is the answer.

>> No.9305197
File: 296 KB, 388x424, the number 5.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9305197

5

>> No.9305249

>>9302450
-1/12

Because it's the min energy level for a string

>> No.9305252

>>9302547
Epsilon

>> No.9305255

>>9304444
Checked

>> No.9305256

>>9302450
-1/12

>> No.9305277

>>9305256
T. Brainlet, but I think that proof is contrived.

>> No.9305333

>>9305252
Epsilon/2

>> No.9305334

>>9305333
[math]\varepsilon^2 [/math]

>> No.9305354

>>9305334
[math]\epsilon^{ \frac {1} {\epsilon} }[/math]

>> No.9305365

A former colleague said that 899 was his favorite number; don't recall why, though.

>> No.9305400

I'm fond of 7 and 3, and to a lesser degree all even numbers

>> No.9306087

>>9302550
This
It's also the smallest prime that can be written as a product of two primes

>> No.9306091

>>9304655
How

>> No.9306096

>>9304655
Why is this googolology so cringy? It's literally the pickle Rick of maths

>> No.9306460

>>9306096
Big numbers appeal to that undesirable amateur caste. The community of laymen who study polytopes is a little better, if only because the barrier to entry is higher.

>> No.9306499

>>9306096
God, those "mathematicians" on this googolology wiki are all 14 year old kids or cranks with no mathematical training

>> No.9306640

>>9304078
>not knowing the difference between positive and strictly positive
do you even bourbaki?

>> No.9306666

>>9306640
Set theory is old and busted.

>> No.9306800

>>9306666
t. topos theory satan

>> No.9306839

[math]i[/math]

>> No.9306843

>>9304093
this is one of the funniest things i've ever seen

>> No.9306854

27 because its a part of the following equation that i made myself:
n^n+n=10n

>> No.9306912
File: 801 KB, 700x525, 1502440636430.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9306912

>>9306854
Y no1 reply.

>> No.9306920

Six million

>> No.9307037

Square root of 2, for It's natural appearance in the most fundamental of all shapes and sizes- and the story of conspiracy surrounding it leading to Pythagoras' death.

>> No.9307043

>>9306843
It's a classic, even posted it on fucking Reddit (/r/greentext/) and got 409 upvotes.

>> No.9307056

>>9307037
Also irrational numbers are always dope as shit

>> No.9307134 [DELETED] 

>>9302450
[math]i^i \ \ = \ \ \frac{1}{\sqrt{e^\pi}}[/math]

[math]i^i=(e^{i\pi/2})^i=e^{-\pi/2}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{e^\pi}}[/math]
[math]=e^{-\pi \/2}[/math]
[math]=frac{1}{sqrt{e^\pi}}[/math]

>> No.9307142

>>9302450 >>9306839

[math] i^i \ = \ (e^{i\pi/2})^i \ = \ e^{-\pi/2} \ = \ \frac{1}{\sqrt{e^\pi}} [/math]

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_formula

>> No.9307156

[math]2\pi i[/math]

>> No.9307159

5
Shape is perfection. It's the chosen number.

>> No.9307489

>>9304455
hyper-infinity

>> No.9307548

>>9302450
-1
t. programmingfag

>> No.9307583

>>9307043
>>>/out/

>> No.9307597

-163

>> No.9307609

14

>> No.9307633

>>9302450

72 and 65

>> No.9307768

>>9302450
TREE(3)

>>9304444
Checked

>> No.9307771

-1/12

>> No.9307778

>>9304473
cicada

>> No.9308271

>>9302450

33 because I watched some numberphile about this numbah, also 196

>> No.9309760
File: 197 KB, 996x610, i7HKuaRJBIpVJJPTZhRlHG5CpBN6z5lG3lXteSIX64k.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9309760

>> No.9309784

>>9304444
I love you

>> No.9309808

My favest is 27543

>> No.9309957

>>9302450
a 1 followed by 13 zeros 666 13 more zeros and a 1
1000000000000066600000000000001
it's a palindrome, it's evil at its core, and it's prime

>> No.9310105

3.14159...... purely because all its decimals are infinite

>> No.9310157

>>9305197
my nigga

>> No.9310217

>>9304444
Clearly two failed dubs yields quads. Hence we define a binary operation on this board which adds attempted n-gets. It is trivial to show that this forms a group.

>> No.9310223
File: 27 KB, 300x300, kallisti.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9310223

23

>> No.9310261

>>9310223
>not 5

>> No.9310274
File: 26 KB, 204x318, pope_3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9310274

>>9310223
>23
Truly a get blessed by the goddess.
Hail Eris!

>> No.9310311

>2357
prime number made by single digit prime numbers that on a phone dial pad draws a prime number (7)

>> No.9310316

27

>> No.9310528

>>9305400
My nigga

>> No.9310554

456.
I would use it whenever we would play those "guess how many candies are in the jar" games at school, and I would always win.

>> No.9310585

>>9303933
Patrician choice

>> No.9310758

>>9302450
3
It's a good approximation for e and pi

>> No.9310812

>>9304015
NO you retard! Everyone knows that numbers only go up to 999.

>> No.9310833

>>9302450

9551

not just because it's prime

>> No.9310836
File: 14 KB, 262x263, laugh frog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9310836

>>9310758

>a good approximation for e and pi

>> No.9310842

>>9304705
Three is such a cute number.

>> No.9310845

Grahams Number

>> No.9310920

>>9302450
1488 for obvious reasons.

>> No.9311112

I like the number 28. It's the sum of all its positive factors less than itself, which I think is neat.

>> No.9311122

>>9306854
Because you put you variables in stupid places. (N^n +n)/n=10. Sorry brainlet. Ps favourite number 16 because it has strong vibes around 2 and 4 and binary shizz.

>> No.9311128

>>9310105
Lame boi. 3.11111111... observe decimal repetition. 3.000000000 observe decimal repetition. Get a better reason brainlet

>> No.9311131

>>9310758
Real knee slapper

>> No.9311135

>>9310758
Kek

>> No.9312375

>>9310758
Found the engineeer

>> No.9312431

>>9310758
that looks like a 3

>> No.9312732

>>9302450
9. Because it's the only even prime number besides 1.

>> No.9313215

8/23 the only irrational number that is the quotient of two integers

>> No.9313229

>>9307056
>irrational
I bet you trust legumes as well, filthy root-2 denier.

>> No.9313233

>>9310842
I'd do things to three, to be honest. Just look at her arches hnnnng.

>> No.9313238

>>9302450
I love 74 because it's the 74th non prime number if you count 0

>> No.9313243

7. It has all sorts of different meanings in Western and eastern cultures and societies. Even the ancient Greeks valued the number. It's also important in the Bible. 7 deadly sins, 7 days in a week, 7 ancient wonders,...

>> No.9313484

14 because it's prime.

>> No.9313487

34 =^]

>> No.9313499

>>9302450
6, because 6 million Jews died in holocaust

>> No.9313517

>>9304583
14

>> No.9313542
File: 23 KB, 279x402, 000009.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
9313542

>>9302450
9 Because everything ends with 9

>> No.9313568

>>9313499
billion*