![]() Not much else happening with the two-digit numbers until we arrive at sleazy 99, the price tag whore who’s made its whole living being the guy next to 100.ġ00 is a big deal and clearly knows it, but that’s fair. There are 41 Disney princesses and 48 real-life princesses, none of whom is Kate Middleton. You might be surprised to know that only 1/43 Americans openly identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, but that when asked in an anonymous and veiled survey, that number jumps to 8/43: So if you’re 6’2″ or taller, you’re the tallest of this average sampling of 20 American men- 4ģ3 is relevant because of Larry Bird and because that’s what I turned on Wednesday thanks for wishing me a happy birthday none of you. And how lucky are those 12 guys? Could any life experience be more desirable than getting to bounce around the moon while looking at the Earth hovering out there in space?Ĭontinuing along, I don’t know whose sister 13 slept with, but somewhere along the way it pissed off the wrong person and managed to become the only number with a legitimately bad reputation.Ģ0’s worth mentioning just because I read during my research that only about 1 in 20 men in the US is 6’2″ or taller. Let’s pause for a second to acknowledge how ridiculously impressive it is that humans got humans onto the moon and safely back. It’s also the number of people who have been on the moon. ![]() 3 Let’s look at some bigger numbers-ġ2 has the dozen thing going which is something, as well as factors up the dick. It seems intuitive that only with base 10 could you multiply and divide so easily and simply add zeros or move a decimal point when shifting by multiples of 10, but that would be the case with any number system. Why did we end up in base ten (instead of something like base 8, which would go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, etc.)? Because we have 10 fingers. 10 itself is a big one, because our entire base ten existence stems from it. ![]() Getting to the two-digit numbers, interesting things finally start happening. The only thing 6 offers my life is annoying the shit out of me every time I have to tell someone my phone number-(xxx)-666-xxxx-and they can’t help but have some reaction to that and then we end up in this little song-and-dance interaction about it. Not thrilled with 9, but at least it’s a perfect square. ![]() Multiplying or dividing things by it is an incredibly underwhelming experience, and it manages to be such a dud that somehow, it’s not a prime number even though it only has one factor.Īs for the rest of the one-digit numbers, I enjoy 2, 4, and 8 because when I was seven I became obsessed with saying “2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, 4,096” before hitting a wall, 1 and I have an affinity for prime numbers, naturally, so 3, 5, and 7 fall into my favor. But then anytime you actually spend time with 1, you end up bored.ġ is also no fun to play with. We’ll lead off with the extraordinarily dull 1.ġ likes to masquerade as this poetic and profound thing, getting used in sentences I don’t really understand, like “the oneness of all” or something annoying like that. 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, and 100,000 are our friends-we get them, they get us, and in this post, we’re basically gonna just hang out with them and catch up, since you probably haven’t been good at keeping in touch. The numbers between 1 and 1,000,000 are everywhere in daily life. ![]() Today, we’ll keep things in the realm of the ordinary and the conceivable, capping ourselves at a million. So I’ve decided to do not one, but two consecutive posts on numbers, during which we’ll start at 1 and end up in a very scary place. Numbers are fascinating and precise and satisfying and delicious and whatever it is you’re thinking about at any given time, there’s at least a 60% chance that I’m over here thinking about numbers. They’re subtle and subjective and rambly and flowy. They’re mushy and sometimes pleasant and sometimes annoying. I’ve never been especially impressed by words. It could be simple or sophisticated, mundane or whimsical, practical or creepy.īut I’m over here thinking about numbers. I don’t know what you’re over there thinking about. ![]()
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