# If you were a number, what kind of number would you be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357 "2002-12-04T04:04:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![knock\_knock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@knock\_knock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knock_knock)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/1 "2002-12-04T04:04:53Z")
I think I’d be complex. ---
**Author:** ![NightRabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/2 "2002-12-04T04:06:23Z")
odd 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/3 "2002-12-04T04:07:06Z")
I’d be Pi ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/4 "2002-12-04T04:08:34Z")
8 ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/5 "2002-12-04T04:10:05Z")
I’d be the product of two very large prime numbers ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/6 "2002-12-04T04:10:30Z")
Imaginary. ---
**Author:** ![IGJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/igjoe/32/5420_2.png) [@IGJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IGJoe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/7 "2002-12-04T04:17:32Z")
Prime, baby! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/8 "2002-12-04T04:19:44Z")
I would be 317. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/9 "2002-12-04T04:32:56Z")
Irrational. For a few good reasons. ---
**Author:** ![TheKnightWhoSaysNi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@TheKnightWhoSaysNi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheKnightWhoSaysNi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/10 "2002-12-04T04:53:25Z")
A Lottery Ball. ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/11 "2002-12-04T05:03:23Z")
Trancedental. And preferably difficult to prove as such. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/12 "2002-12-04T05:22:10Z")
I’d be an integer. An odd one, and prime. Oh, wait a minute! I am a number! Triskadecamus ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/13 "2002-12-04T05:38:36Z")
I am not a number, I am a human being! ---
**Author:** ![StPaul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@StPaul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StPaul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/14 "2002-12-04T06:12:47Z")
I’d like to be a song and dance one. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/15 "2002-12-04T06:14:02Z")
I’d be [symbol]w[/symbol], the probability that a randomly chosen program halts on a randomly chosen input. Not only can it not be computed by a computer program, but you would need an infinite number of axioms to prove what its value is. More [here](http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/unm2.html). ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/16 "2002-12-04T06:18:05Z")
I’d be LXIX. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/17 "2002-12-04T07:02:08Z")
e ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Blunty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Captain\_Blunty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Blunty)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/18 "2002-12-04T07:24:25Z")
69 Do I really have to explain? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/19 "2002-12-04T12:27:24Z")
Irrational, but I’d trick people into thinking I was an integer by having zero as the first few thousand digits after the decimal point. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/20 "2002-12-04T12:32:37Z")
Big fat zero. Maybe even negative zero. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357.md?page=2)