# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![bee\_with\_an\_itch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@bee\_with\_an\_itch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bee_with_an_itch)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/81 "2002-12-07T21:01:04Z")
irrational -or- M ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/82 "2002-12-08T00:15:37Z")
Tut tut. Not going to all your lectures? Absolutely _shocking_. I’ve been to all of umm… 2/3 of my lectures this term. I’m sure I’d have been to more if they were more interesting and not at 9:00. 🙂 We should do a mini CamDope at some point. I know there are several others around somewhere. I think we have a high enough sdmb user density that we could easily pull it off. Maybe next term. ---
**Author:** ![Krispy\_Original](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ec9cab/32.png) [@Krispy\_Original](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krispy_Original)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/83 "2002-12-08T00:37:40Z")
…I’d be #3… ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/84 "2002-12-08T00:47:54Z")
> [@](#): > > I would be the square root of 2 raised to the power of the square root of 2. Consequently, nobody would be able to know whether I was rational or not. Actually, they could, it’s just that the _ancient Greeks_ wouldn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/85 "2002-12-08T00:50:00Z")
Oh. Almost forgot. Sadly, I’d be a perfect square ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/86 "2002-12-08T01:26:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > **Tut tut. Not going to all your lectures? Absolutely _shocking_. I’ve been to all of umm… 2/3 of my lectures this term. I’m sure I’d have been to more if they were more interesting and not at 9:00. 🙂** Well, I could have not done my example sheets instead if they’d have prefered that. Seriously, no-one try this at home. I wish I had gone now (except to number fields). > [@](#): > > \*\*We should do a mini CamDope at some point. I know there are several others around somewhere. I think we have a high enough sdmb user density that we could easily pull it off. Maybe next term. \*\* Nice idea. I vaguely recall your being from cambr, and I think perhaps **Angua** was. This should be moved to mpsims, shouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![gouda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c77e96/32.png) [@gouda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gouda)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/87 "2002-12-08T12:24:57Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by lieu:_ > **One in a million, Baby.** Ha! I’m one in about 1.2 billion!!! From India 😃 ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/88 "2002-12-08T22:58:02Z")
68 blow me and I’ll owe you one. ---
**Author:** ![F.Prefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@F.Prefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Prefect)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/89 "2002-12-10T03:13:24Z")
I wouldn’t be a number but a representation of all numbers (and a couple other things) but I can’t remember the keystrokes for a mobius strip. So instead I will be the 1/2 pasta dinner with the house salad and a drink divided by the tip percentage due a waiter whom allowed my glass to empty completely three times at a brunch on a Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/90 "2002-12-10T07:43:38Z")
Now,. this is my kinda thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/91 "2002-12-10T18:00:25Z")
Most days: any one of the variables in a polynomial equation Occasionally: absolute zero Ideally: a member of a null set ---
**Author:** ![F.Prefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cc9497/32.png) [@F.Prefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Prefect)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/92 "2002-12-11T00:58:14Z")
> [@](#): > > ## **NardoPolo** quote: > > ## Cute. > > No, no, you must be thinking of angles… (snicker) > > As for me, I’d be 7 Clever or Ironic? 7 being “a cute” angle and all. ---
**Author:** ![IThinkNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce73a5/32.png) [@IThinkNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IThinkNot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/93 "2002-12-11T02:32:12Z")
Hey, hey, hey… I’m new here, first registered post, just so you know… I would be Judgement Day, which is…drumrolllllll -11.11 ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/94 "2002-12-11T03:29:29Z")
Seven… (did anyone see that sienfeld?) ---
**Author:** ![Christina25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8edcca/32.png) [@Christina25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Christina25)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/95 "2002-12-11T05:27:02Z")
e squared ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/96 "2002-12-11T08:17:17Z")
As my REAL name is Seven, the telephone started ringing off the hook when that Sienfeld show aired. Stupid Sienfeld. ---
**Author:** ![Reuben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@Reuben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuben)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/97 "2002-12-11T11:14:56Z")
What else, but [a perfect number](http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Perfect_numbers.html). ---
**Author:** ![merge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@merge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merge)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/98 "2002-12-11T13:44:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Seven \* > \*\*As my REAL name is Seven, the telephone started ringing off the hook when that Sienfeld show aired. > > Stupid Sienfeld. \*\* Your real name is seven? what were your parents thinking? ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/99 "2002-12-11T15:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reuben \* > \*\*What else, but [a perfect number](http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Perfect_numbers.html). \*\* That’s what I said on the first page… but in a more roundabout way… ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-number-what-kind-of-number-would-you-be/140357/100 "2002-12-11T17:25:59Z")
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