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33 Comments on International Day of Numbers

  1. Andrew

    23 is the smallest number of integer-sided boxes that tile a box so that no two boxes share a common length.

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  2. elspethjane

    24 is the amount of hours in a day

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  3. Orbman

    1.6180339 is a very interesting number for a number of reasons if we must keep things in proportion.

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  4. seattle_mike

    Phi on that Orbman …

    25 is a quarter of a century.

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  5. Kam

    26 is how old I wish I was

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  6. C-C

    27 is that lovely day in November of my birth.

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  7. B-man

    28 is the second perfect number after 6. Perfect numbers were deemed to have important numerological properties by the ancients, and were extensively studied by the Greeks, including Euclid.

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  8. Nicole

    29 is the sum of the squares of three consecutive numbers: 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2. It’s also the date my sister and I share for our birthdays in August and September, respectively.

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  9. yLe

    Year 22 was a common year starting on Thursday.. Thursday is referred to in Latin as feria quinta..

    Sawbuck in the sense of “sawhorse” only is attested from 1862 but presumably is older.

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  10. jo

    30 is small t-shirt of an big country or the time for use an action:)

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  11. leron

    31 is the number of ice cream flavors my local store claimed to be selling, but when I counted it was actually 55. Plus sorbet and yogurt. They asked me to leave before I could buy anything.

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  12. Paris Hilton

    32 is number of sheets on a roll of toilet paper. Five years ago there were 66.

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  13. B-man

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    1. yLe

      7 Million is the number of seconds between then and now.

      47 is the usual number strings of a pedal harp

      47 is the number of dancers in the original Fiest video for 1 2 3 4

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  14. Andrew

    33 is the number of innings played in the longest pro-baseball game in history (a 1981 minor league game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox).

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  15. C-C

    34 is the atomic number of Selenium.

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  16. agile

    XXXV was considered to be the prime age for a man in Ancient Rome.

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  17. Paris Hilton

    36 was Marilyn Monroe’s bust size.

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  18. wonkydonky

    37 is one more than the nonzero spaces on an American Roulette wheel, and exactly the number of spaces on a European one.
    (and is supposedly the most common random number? http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/random.html)

    Although the payout for a single-number bet is 35:1, the total number of spaces on a Roulette wheel is actually…

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  19. Andrew

    The year 38 began on a wednesday.

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  20. Paris Hilton

    39 is the age of every female celebrity over the age of 40. Hollywood is filled with thousands and thousands of 39 year olds.

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  21. Kam

    40 is UB

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  22. aRcanecraft

    paris that doesn’t make sense…and are you the celebrity paris hilton or someone with same name as her.

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    1. leron

      Pay no attention, Paris! We know you’re for real.

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  23. nolalou

    69 is um.. er.. never mind ;)

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  24. seattle_mike

    Come on stranger keep in sequence or I’ll have to report you to the number police.

    42 is the ultimate answer to everything.

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  25. leron

    43 was the number on the race car of Richard Petty, the greatest NASCAR driver of all time.

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  26. Firster

    41 is a number that is often skipped.

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  27. Kam

    44 Laws of Spiritual Development - Edgar Cayce

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  28. Andrew

    In the UK, sales for 45 RPM Records overtook 78s early in 1958.

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  29. C-C

    46 was the first object Charles Messier discovered after he had published the first edition of his list (M1-M45). He added this one to his catalog on February 19, 1771, three days after presenting it to the academy, together with three more Messier objects, M47, M48, and M49.

    The cluster is very rich, with 150 stars of mag 10-13 and probably a total population of over 500. The brightest of these stars are of spectral type A0, and each about 100 times more luminous than the Sun (the brightest is of apparent magnitude 8.7). This indicates an age of about 300 million years.

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  30. Dean

    Seven is Heaven, Eight is Great, Nine is Fine, Ten—ten we’ll you a great big Hen. Oh , eleven is Heaven again.

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  31. Andrew

    Due to the rising costs of corn-sugar and aluminum, Coca Cola saw a 47% drop in profits for the first quarter of this year.

    http://www.ajc.com/news/content/business/coke/stories/2008/04/24/cceearns_0425.html

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