# Numbers with common associations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473 "2017-09-04T13:34:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/41 "2017-09-05T23:29:07Z")
56 for me is associated with the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and for the 56ers, emigrants from Hungary after the revolution didn’t turn out well. This is probably fairly esoteric for most folks, though. ---
**Author:** ![MsJinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@MsJinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsJinx)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/42 "2017-09-06T06:11:23Z")
11 - herbs and spices in KFC secret recipe (not because I love KFC, but Kinky Friedman seemed to mention it a lot in his books as a euphemism for something else) ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/43 "2017-09-06T14:58:08Z")
1. There is a famous story about the number theorist G.H. Hardy visiting Ramanujan in the hospital and telling him that he had just come in a taxi with a very dull number, 1729. Then Ramanujan is quoted as having said, “No, Hardy, that is the smallest positive number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways.” The two ways are 1000 + 729 = 1728 + 1. If that quote is accurate (which I doubt), then Ramanujan erred and the correct number is 91. And 91 is interesting for a different reason. It is the smallest non-prime that most people think is prime. If Ramanujan said “positive cubes” he was correct. But 91 = 3^3 + 4^3 = 6^3 + (-5)^3 = 7\*13. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/44 "2017-09-08T14:22:55Z")
**Hari** , my head is still spinning. 8675309: makes me think of Jenny! Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Lead guitarist Jim Keller, interviewed by People in 1982, said “Jenny is a regular girl, not a hooker. Friends of mine wrote her name and number on a men’s room wall at a bar. I called her on a dare, and we dated for a while. I haven’t talked with her since the song became a hit, but I hear she thinks I’m a real jerk for writing it.” \*\*\*Jenny, I got your number I need to make you mine Jenny, don’t change your number Eight six seven five three oh nine\*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/45 "2017-09-08T17:17:06Z")
4 Horseman of the Apocalypse 7 Deadly Sins 13 is the age of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. 86 when you cancel an item on a menu or kick somebody out of your bar. (“You’re 86’d, punk. The doorman will help you find your way out.”) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/46 "2017-09-08T17:22:31Z")
714 is the Dragnet badge. Or Babe Ruth’s home runs. (Also my birthday!) You could start a whole new thread on the significance of certain numbers in sports. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/47 "2017-09-08T17:26:48Z")
How many bottles of beer on the wall are there? ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/48 "2017-09-08T17:33:24Z")
76 to me relates to US independence (Philadelphia 76ers, Spirit of 76) 1000 - when you’re doing perfectly – or, sarcastically, terribly (“Batting a thousand”) ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/49 "2017-09-08T17:35:46Z")
'68 Camaro '65 Mustang '57 Chevy ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/50 "2017-09-09T01:14:32Z")
Here’s a few more 80- TRS 80 Computer 82- BLU 82 bomb, aka Daisy Cutter 87- Delaware 87ers 88-White supremacist slogan 93- Threshold for an A grade 95- Interstate 95 100- Cents in a dollar 107- Years between Cubs world series wins 110-Number of cornets that accompanied the 76 trombones 151- Overproof rum 154- Representatives in Maine State House of Representatives 180- Max score in a round of darts 212- Boiling point of water 301- Target score in darts 360- Degrees in a circle 438- Congressional districts in the United States ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/51 "2017-09-09T14:56:35Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > How many bottles of beer on the wall are there? Why, 99 of course! Right? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/52 "2017-09-09T14:58:49Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > You could start a whole new thread on the significance of certain numbers in sports. 755 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/53 "2017-09-09T15:07:25Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Why, 99 of course! > > Right? Take one down Pass it around _Now_ how many bottles of beer on the wall? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/54 "2017-09-09T21:23:21Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Take one down > Pass it around > > _Now_ how many bottles of beer on the wall? There’s still 99. There’s always 99. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/55 "2017-09-10T05:59:54Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > There’s still 99. There’s always 99. I’ll drink to that. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/56 "2017-09-10T06:16:48Z")
1. Many people in the West have [seen that number](http://tcwtony19710407.pixnet.net/album/photo/293225677) (top left of the photo) or rather seen [photos](http://www.c21-tokyo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/57.jpg)with the number in the photo but probably don’t pay attention. It’s a fashion store for high schoolish girls in Shibuya and one of the iconic scenes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/57 "2017-09-10T13:43:51Z")
Let’s not forget 14 k of g in a fpd. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473/58 "2017-09-10T15:02:33Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > Here’s a few more > > 154- Representatives in Maine State House of Representatives > 438- Congressional districts in the United States If we get to count the number of representatives in the various states, foreign countries, etc. or the numbers on sports jerseys, we’ll get lots of numbers that are meaningless to many. And there are 435 representatives. There are 538 electoral votes because DC gets 3, but it has no representative. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/numbers-with-common-associations/795473.md?page=2)